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

    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
      1·
      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.