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read moreRussia scrubs two senior space officials
William Atkins
Thursday, 30 December 2010 00:58
The Russian government sent two of its top space officials into deep space -- they were fired -- after they contributed to the failure of a December 5, 2010 launch of three satellites within its Glonass navigational system.
Energia (or RKK Energiya) is the Russian spacecraft/space station component manufacturing company that makes the rocket used for the launching of its Glonass satellite navigational system.
And, Roskosmos (or the Russian Federal Space Agency) is the Russian space agency -- the equivalent to NASA in the United States.
According to a statement made by Medvedev, they are removed for "the mistakes made in the fuel calculations.' [The Australian: 'Dmitry Medvedev sacks space officials']
The mistake caused three Glonass-M satellites to be unable to reach their intended orbits above Earth (they crashed back to Earth) after their Proton-M rocket was deemed too heavy.
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