The first satellite from Russia's nascent attempt to build a domestic broadband constellation fell back into Earth's atmosphere and burned up on approximately June 6, 2026, less than three months after it launched, according to reporting by Anatoly Zak, a

Oh no! Whoopsie

The absence of any official government statement about the launch points to the sensitivity surrounding the program, which sits at the intersection of Russia’s commercial space ambitions, its military communications requirements, and the broader contest over satellite-based internet infrastructure that Starlink has made a strategic priority for governments worldwide.

Darn, maybe bullshitting absolutely everything including rocket design doesn’t work out in the end?

Maybe shithead oligarchs are too incompetent to be trusted to competently run space programs?

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    SpaceX is famous for failing constantly. Musk was always tweeting before he bought Twitter about how the latest rocket failure was another learning opportunity.

    Again it’s not that Starlink doesn’t work. It’s how the news is framed that makes it jingoism. Starlink lost dozens of satellites when they were first starting in 2019.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

      SpaceX is famous for failing constantly.

      SpaceX is the largest space launch company in the world. Out of hundreds of Falcon 9 launches since 2010 only three have failed. I don’t know where this fame for “constant failure” is coming from but it seems more likely motivated by dislike of Musk than by actual statistics.

      Again it’s not that Starlink doesn’t work.

      Something’s inconsistent here.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        I don’t know where this fame for “constant failure

        The early days of SpaceX was constant failure. 3 of the 5 Falcon 1’s failed.

        Something’s inconsistent here.

        Russia starts program for Starlink type program and loses 1. “Hur dur, stupid Russians.” SpaceX loses 25 in the first year of launches back in 2020 and it’s the cost of doing business, nothing to see.

        • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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          2 months ago

          It’s not the “early days” of SpaceX any more. It hasn’t been for over a decade. Nobody using SpaceX’s services today cares about Falcon 1.

          I pointed out the rather significant difference between Russia’s communication satellite constellation and SpaceX’s already.

          • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            Yes it’s not the early days of Space X but it is the early days of Russia’s Starlink (googling says it’s planned for 2035). During Starlink’s early days it was “we are learning” and “cost of business”. Russia loses one in a test and it’s, “they’re idiots”. That’s jingoism.