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Destroyed the biggest telecommunication satellite

Moscow, Russia - It was impossible its recovery

After the lack to send into orbit, with a Russian rocket Proton, the Astra 1K, the European satellite for the telecommunications, it has been tried to do as well as it could in order to get it back. But it was impossible to replace it on the right orbit, or to try a saving, only with its inner engines, because the satellite, almost 5 tons of weight, turned on an ellipse 35 thousand km far from the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 37050

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
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