Russian satellites engage in deep sea research

Pat Flannery wrote in
dakotatelephone:

Up went the Proton, then down came the Proton off Gilligan's Island:
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...ash_into_Pacif
ic_space_official_999.html

Pat


Blok DuMps another one in the drink. What's their quality control
problem?

--Damon

Up went the Proton, then down came the Proton off Gilligan's Island:
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...i al_999.html

Pat

On Dec 5, 12:19*pm, Damon Hill wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote thdakotatelephone:

Up went the Proton, then down came the Proton off Gilligan's Island:
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...ash_into_Pacif
ic_space_official_999.html

Pat

Blok DuMps another one in the drink. *What's their quality control
problem?

--Damon

So where's our more than double spendy OCO replacement mission?

~ BG

On 12/5/2010 12:19 PM, Damon Hill wrote:
Pat wrote in
dakotatelephone:

Up went the Proton, then down came the Proton off Gilligan's Island:
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...ash_into_Pacif
ic_space_official_999.html

Pat


Blok DuMps another one in the drink. What's their quality control
problem?

They've had problems with Proton from day one.
Although it would be capable of carrying a really impressive manned
spacecraft into orbit, and was going to do that if the "Almaz" military
space program hadn't been downsized, it never has been completely man-rated.
There was a bad run of failures back in 2006-2008, and it seems the
upper stages are particularly prone to problems.

Pat

Well, they figured out what went wrong...they overfueled it:http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1012/10protonrtf/

Pat

nasa would of taken 2 years and 3 million pounds of paperwork to
determine the same thing if it had been their launch

On 12/5/2010 7:15 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:


Blok DuMps another one in the drink. What's their quality control
problem?

They've had problems with Proton from day one.
Although it would be capable of carrying a really impressive manned
spacecraft into orbit, and was going to do that if the "Almaz" military
space program hadn't been downsized, it never has been completely
man-rated.
There was a bad run of failures back in 2006-2008, and it seems the
upper stages are particularly prone to problems.

Well, they figured out what went wrong...they overfueled it:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1012/10protonrtf/

Pat

On Dec 5, 10:57*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
Up went the Proton, then down came the Proton off Gilligan's Island:http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...crash_into_Pac...

Pat

It's top secret mission, GLONASS will guide Russian submarines from
the bottom of sea.

On Dec 5, 12:57*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
Up went the Proton, then down came the Proton off Gilligan's Island:http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...crash_into_Pac...

Pat

Just like our spendy OCO mission that never got investigated or much
less anything recovered, even though we knew within a km2 of exactly
where it took its dive into the ocean.

~ BG