Doomed satellite in the Pacific

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Aron Schatz
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December 10, 2002
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I reported awhile ago about that Russian satellite launch screw up. It has finally fell into the ocean.

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The world's largest communications satellite has been ditched into the sea, two weeks after a Russian rocket failed to put it into the correct orbit.
Satellite controllers used the Astra-1K's engines to plunge it into the southern Pacific Ocean, says Russian space forces spokesman Vyacheslav Davidyenko.

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