Russia's 1 trillion satellite crashed due to silly error

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on December 27 that the 2.6 billion ruble (about 1,000 billion VND) satellite that failed last month was due to a “silly” error in its programming system.

The Soyuz-2 rocket was launched into orbit.

Last month, the Roscosmos space agency announced that it had lost contact with the Meteor-M weather satellite, launched from the Vostochny base in the Far East. The satellite was also carrying 18 other small satellites from various countries participating in the project.

Mr Rogozin said the mothership had been programmed to operate from the Baikonur test site leased by Russia from Kazakhstan, not the Vostochny test site. This fatal mistake caused the expensive satellite to malfunction and fail.

On Rossiya 24 channel, the Russian Deputy Prime Minister confirmed that this mistake was due to human error. The Vostochny test site is located in the taiga forest of the Amur region. This is Russia's first civilian missile test site.

The rocket used to put the satellite into orbit was the Soyuz-2. After reaching the middle layer of the atmosphere, the rocket lost all contact with Earth.

According to Khoahoc.tv