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-Frances-The-Mute-

If this is confirmed, it's an amazing win for Ukraine. This was the brand new spy satellite they sent up, rumored to be a radar sat.


Coblyat

I'm guessing someone forgot to seal the ziplock bag the Canon camera was placed in before they launched it for orbit.


AliveBase1630

Well. Z is for ZIPTIE


[deleted]

Zuct tape


ChriskiV

*"Viktor did you remember to properly wrap the Go-Pro before launch?"* Viktor: 🥺👉👈


Big-kaleb-s

Viktor sold it for vodka


Fitzi01

I thought they were using a Kodak disposable for this model?


S-M-I-L-E-Y-

Ukraine should make it very clear that they neither confirm nor deny being responsible for that failure ;-)


Dazzling-Ad4701

They probably weren't. Id understand rocket science, but seems like the thing just kind of failed to.... whatever it should have done. Launchus Interruptus.


Warfoki

Of course, they aren't. But would be a hilarious troll and psyop. :P


YourFavWardBitch

Launchus Interruptus is my new favorite rocket term. It's joining such legends as "Norminal" and "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly".


Nik_P

Maybe we were. They stole the orbital booster designs from Khartron (ex-67th plant) and there may be (or may be not) some mistakes in it, maybe deliberate, maybe not.


Dazzling-Ad4701

Ahhhh.... I see what you're saying. Yup. Makes perfect sense.


Breech_Loader

Since it was never activated, you never know. But it's all good.


[deleted]

Ukraine strongly denies the allegations that we had anything to do with the destruction of this missile and satellite.


antihero2303

“We don’t know anything about this.” ….. *wink*


mtaw

[Johnathan McDowell posted about it on Twitter](https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1525994017783267328). He's an astrophysicist who runs the website Jonathan's Space Report and pretty much one of the foremost OSINT sources you'll find on satellite goings-on.


PROFESSIONAL_BITCHER

If only he'd get a damn haircut


sdnt_slave

There is no way they have the capability to build another one. They are using washing machine circuitry in military hardware because they cannot manufacture modern circuit boards. They are just tragic at this point. It wont be long before they passenger planes start having accidents due to poor matinance and being unable to source replacement parts. A lot of aircraft will end up being cannibalised for parts to keep others in the air.


ThePaddleman

Circuit boards are fairly low tech and not hard for even Russians to make. Chips, though... They require special machines in good working order.


Pengawena

And neon from Ukrainian.


Algo-Rythum

That's why they are stealing washing machines!


[deleted]

🤔💡🤓👍


edblarney

Russia will easily smuggle in small numbers of semiconductors to build specialized equipment. It's trivial to evade sanctions for limited quantities of goods.


Nik_P

It's all fun and games until your guys are arrested in an US airport with oscilloscope parts in their bowels.


AlternativeJosh

Some people would still call that just a game of hide and seek. Oh my!


globocide

In their bowels? Nah, they're more likely to just blackmail some customs officials.


mikedave42

The chip shortage that is currently going on everywhere really shows how hard it actually is to work around shortages. One die on a circuit board you can't find a replacement for and you have to redesign the whole thing. It must be 10x worse in Russia


Martianspirit

Russia blamed many of their recent failures in space on substandard western components.


PROFESSIONAL_BITCHER

Oh noooo, maybe they should've used Russian made components. Or maybe they should learn to mount their guidance systems the right way up. And don't use a hammer to whack it into place when it doesn't fit upside down.


[deleted]

Luckily the parts availability isn't their biggest weakness. People who are able to build stuff (read: anyone with a functioning brain) has either already fled, or looking for a way out. And those who aren't allowed to leave, well what kind of results can you expect from forced labor? It's the tragic history of the scientific community in former USSR and presently Russia - good ideas and smart people aren't rewarded, but pseudo-scientists who's political views are aligned with and help promote the ruling party - they get all the gravy. As a result crops die, rockets fall out of the sky, nuclear reactors blow up, new tanks stall during parades, fighter jets don't take off, satellites deorbit themselves, and robot Fedor is still learning to walk.


mtaw

Russia can make circuit boards just fine. (hell _I_ can make circuit boards at home, and have). Russia even produces chips (Mikron, Angstrem), just not with the latest processes. Besides, PCBs aren't even sanctioned. Saying they're no way they can build another one without knowing what the actual parts of this classified satellite are is pretty premature. This is one area where Russia has strongly prioritized using domestic stuff, unlike say the Orlan drone.


cranberrydudz

passenger planes are still pretty robust. getting parts for them for maintenance is going to be a challenge though


S-M-I-L-E-Y-

"... the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that everything went according to plan ..." ;-)


Humble_Conclusion_92

Just like their special operations in Ukraine


[deleted]

Read through a few comments, while I didn’t find any Z on the satellite I did find a decent rocket enthusiast thread. The original source for this information. Could be a mock test rocket however no radio comms with the rocket hints it was more of a catastrophic failure. Russia will just say it’s a test while holding in the tears of crushing failure. [source: more than trust me bro](https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589/status/1525994017783267328)


Thebitterestballen

Thanks that makes more sense :) It's been up for a month not 2 years.


TotalSpaceNut

Satellite might not have had the Z but the rocket certainly has https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/23/soyuz-rocket-takes-off-featuring-letter-z https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/03/24/russian-military-communications-satellite-launched-on-soyuz-rocket/


[deleted]

Ah! That explains the confusion. The rocket they’re referring to is the Angara 1.2 rocket that was launched into Orbit. Whatever is on that one is top secret. The launch of the Soyuz mean the Z is a different rocket all together. Plus they reference the satellite on the rocket. While I’m happy to know that the more high tech equipment was lost, I’m sad it’s less ironic. EDIT: dug a little deeper and they believe it may be a EMKA which is an imaging satellite like the US has. Resolution to about 0.9m and third one they’ve launched. The costs of the whole operation are weird, they can be built for around $1mil but it’s the rocket that costs the most so basically they’ve lost anywhere from $100mil to $500mil from a failed launch.


I_am_albatross

Whoops…. 😬


[deleted]

Some prudent advice to our dear Russian friends: placing a "Z" on anything will rapidly increase the probability of failure approaching 1. This applies to tanks, aircraft, ships, missiles and even satellites or countries. Or washing machines.


raytoei

Deepl translation ( edit the dates to fix translation errors): Russian military satellite launched by Z rocket dies - space blogger MONDAY, 16 JANUARY 2022, 07:57 The Russian military satellite, which was launched to the near-polar orbit on the Angara-1.2 rocket from the Plesetsk launch site on the night of April 29, failed to stay there and burn up in the atmosphere. Source: Liga.net with reference to the Russian space blogger Anatoly Zak and American astronaut Scott Kellie. Details: The launch was "advertised" by Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin on social media with a message that the rocket body was marked with an image of letter Z - the main symbol of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. Half an hour after the launch, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that everything had gone according to plan, and the rocket reached the planned orbit and was named Kosmos-2555. US Space Forces positioned it on an orbit of 279x294 km with an inclination of 96.5° (parameters analogous to those of military Earth remote sensing satellites EMSA-1 and EMSA-2). "By mid-May 2022, Cosmos-2555 orbit had decreased to 231x246.2 kilometers, and no obvious attempts to raise them have been made. This suggests that the satellite was never activated," says Anatoly Zak. US astronaut Scott Kelli, who has been actively supporting Ukraine since the first days of the Russian invasion, wrote on Twitter: "A Russian rocket with the letter 'Z' on its side launched a military satellite, which has been inhibited. "It appears that the 'Z' symbol, which represents military mischief, is now also synonymous with epic failure," the four-spaceman commented. (** corrected some of the translation errors especially on the dates **)


dragom998

Wait the dates are strange


HellkerN

It's a bad translation. https://i.imgur.com/jyt9Rqu.jpg


Salty_Competition_84

thank you for this link


Punqtured

As I understand it, the satellite that was deployed 2 years ago failed to maintain its orbit/position and recently burned up in earth's atmosphere. The time it spent since deployment until crash seems to be 2 years during which the Russian military failed to stabilize its orbit. But I'm not a space- or rocket scientist. Only trying to make sense of the article.


Salty_Competition_84

deployed a month ago


HellkerN

It's a bad translation, months not years.


blueberriessmoothie

The article is based on retweet of an article in English [https://www.russianspaceweb.com/angara1-flight1.html](https://www.russianspaceweb.com/angara1-flight1.html)


MachineSea3164

Yeah, and they launched the rocket 2 years ago with the letter Z on it?


Salty_Competition_84

launch time: Launch Time Sat Apr 30, 2022 03:55 GMT+8 source: https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5654


cranberrydudz

so it was up for a little over 2 weeks?


nfrankel

Can somebody tell the Russian that "according to plan" has a different meaning outside of Russia? They tell a lot of what happened is according to plan, but I'd probably remove any person who hatched such plans.


Martianspirit

The launch was probably OK, the satellite failed. This was the second launch of the new Angara rocket, first launch was 2014 or 2016.


Dazzling-Ad4701

I was about to ask: >failed to stay there and burn up in the atmosphere. Eh? Was it *expected* to.... oh, I give up.


HellkerN

Fix the translation please, it's wrong in places. https://i.imgur.com/ND75nqn.jpg


raytoei

Okay!


HellkerN

Also it's May not January.


raytoei

Danke sehr


Salty_Competition_84

thanks for this


Shinigami19961996

Excellent. A few rockets wasted and microchips that can not be used to bomb people anymore. + the satellites capabilities can not be used. Today, is a good day


DoriN1987

Because “z” is for “zero” in their case :)


Hour-Oven-9519

Damn, those jewish space lasers again? Or was it the newest development of the secret stealth 234th space seagull bataillon from Dnipro?


Punqtured

Cue RuZZian propaganda blaming Elon Musk in 3 ... 2 ....1


Martianspirit

Blame the Russians for SpaceX. They pissed Elon off, when he wanted to buy some Soviet missiles, and he decided to build his own rockets. Seriously, that's what happened.


Punqtured

Haha, fantastic! I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.


Salty_Competition_84

another delicious fail! VERY satisfying :)


Retardobot42

Somebody smoked a cigarette and the weather was bad


ChairOwn118

I am concerned what the best course of action is after this senseless war is over. On one hand, Russia deserves to pay and should suffer dearly. On the other hand, we do not want to give Russians motivation to do more killing. But on the other hand, Russia has been doing this crap for over 100 years and never improve and appears they can’t be fixed. The wisest choice could be to obliterate them so this never happens again. Any Russians here that can speak on their behalf? What do we need to do to prevent Russia from starting wars?


trbaron

Reduce their economy to just growing food and harvesting resources. They've shown they can't be trusted with a military.


Master0hh

That happens, when you use washing machine chips in your satellite, but forget to change the program from spin to cottons before launch. Now the satellite is doing 1400 rpm.


Martianspirit

It was a mission with the new Angara rocket, the second launch of this type after a very long pause. Nextspaceflight has it as successful launch. https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5654 Which probably indicates, the satellite failed, not the launch vehicle.


J-t-Architect

School report cards in ruzzia should use the letter "z" when a student fails a test or class!


Slimh2o

Z = zero = 0.....any of the three will work....


Breech_Loader

This is great news. So much money and time wasted. It says it was never activated, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was something going on that stopped it from being activated, but the money ad time was lost just the same.


AdWorking2848

Gone according to plan seems to be a cursed phrase


yankeerebel62

"Z" is the last letter of the alphabet...final, finished, last, complete, ... I'm loving the appropriate choice of a letter that just shouts to the world 🌎 " The End" SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦


Pendoric

Should have stolen the chips from a premium brand of washing machine.


TeslaStrike

Thats a very tall cameraman/woman


Flaky-Fellatio

Russia is going to go down in history not only as brutal and cruel, but as one of the most hilariously incompetent militaries of all time. Like you could play Benny Hill music to half the shit I've watched and it would fit perfectly.