Galileo and its two wayward satellites

On 2014-08-27 01:17, Rick Jones wrote:
Some details of just how far off the last two Galileo satellites
launched ended-up:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08...eo_repair_job/

"Didier Faivre, ESA's director of navigation programs, announced ground
controllers received signals from the Galileo satellites after the
launch, verifying they were alive after the ride into orbit." [1]

"Russia's Izviestia reports that an investigation of the incident found
that the Soyuz's first stage did all that was asked of it. So did the
second stage, but that vehicle had been programmed incorrectly.

Izviestia quotes sources in the Russian space program that news of the
error has reached the office of the Prime Minister, and that
highly-placed persons therein are far from happy." [2]

[1] http://www.spaceflightnow.com/soyuz/vs09/140822anomaly/

[2]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08..._from_reality/

Hils wrote:
"Russia's Izviestia reports that an investigation of the incident found
that the Soyuz's first stage did all that was asked of it. So did the
second stage, but that vehicle had been programmed incorrectly.

Izviestia quotes sources in the Russian space program that news of the
error has reached the office of the Prime Minister, and that
highly-placed persons therein are far from happy." [2]
...
[2]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08..._from_reality/

Clearly a Communist conspiracy to poison the Purity of European Orbits
- PEO, OPE, POE, one of those things

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