Serious setback in the news.


In a blow to national pride, Roskosmos, Russia's equivalent to NASA, said it was trying to locate the Express-AM4 communications satellite that was meant to deliver more modern phone, TV and internet services across the world's largest country.

The satellite blast off from the Soviet-era Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the early hours of Thursday morning atop a Proton-M rocket but appears to have suffered a critical failure when its upper segment was in the process of separating from its earlier booster stages.

The giant satellite was insured for the equivalent of about £160 million but its loss is the latest in a string of embarrassing failures and casts a pall over Russia's commercially lucrative satellite launch industry at a time when it is trying to drum up more business.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8709625/Russia-loses-contact-with-Europes-biggest-communications-satellite.html
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What's happening to Russia? They've been having quite a number of setbacks and failures, and in front of the global stage. :( Hopefully, Roskomos' investigation will at least be investigated.

I have a question though, can they still salvage the satellite?

They found the satellite! It's in the wrong orbit!

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44208711/ns/technology_and_science-space/