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The Russian GEO-IK 2 satellite, which was sent into the wrong orbit, can’t perform its mission, First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin was quoted as saying.
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Russia’s military has located the GEO-IK-2 satellite that went missing after launch aboard a Rokot/Briz-KM from Plesetsk.
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The Russian Space Forces could not establish contact with the GEO-IK-2 satellite that was launched aboard a Rokot/Briz-KM from Plesetsk on 1 February 2011, 1400 UTC. Latest reports indicate the spacecraft ended up in a useless orbit.
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ISRO has come one step closer in identifying the root cause of the GSLV-F06 failure on 25 December, IANS news agency reports. The 11-member expert committee hopes to come to a conclusion during its next session on 7 February.

A static electrical discharge was the reason for the failure of Galaxy 15, operator Intelsat reportedly told the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority.
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ISRO has published the findings of a Preliminary Failure Analysis Team looking into the loss of the GLSV-F06 rocket carrying the GSAT-5P satellite. It has been confirmed that 10 connectors between the second and the third stage snapped early into flight when they should have not. The cause for this has still to be established.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has fired two space officials over the recent Proton launch failure that resulted in the loss of three GLONASS satellites.