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Resurs P3 may be in trouble after successful launch

Submit on Monday, March 14th, 2016 22:58

Rocket: Soyuz-2-1b; Payload: Resurs-P No. 3 [Resurs P3]; Date: 13 March 2016, 1856 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The remote sensing satellite was accurately placed on a 279 x 452 km x 97.3 degrees orbit 9 minutes, 21 seconds after lift-off. However, one of the satellite’s solar panels apparently did not deploy correctly.

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