Telkom-3 launch failure

2012/08/08 – Indonesia’s Telkom says its lost satellite will cost it around $200 million. The craft (Telkom-3) was placed into a useless low orbit late on Monday when the final stage of a Russian launch rocket failed to operate correctly.  Russia’s space ministry (Roscosmos) has suspended all operations from the launch site at Baikonur pending a full investigation.

The Briz-M stage burned only for 7 seconds, instead of a planned total of 18 minutes.

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