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US · 3 hrs ago
All 16 of Russia's latest satellites for its Starlink rival failed to reach their intended orbit
Russia relies on the Soyuz rocket to launch its spacecraft, as seen in this photo from a separate, successful July mission carrying US and Russian crew to the International Space Station.
Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP
After being cut off from Starlink, Russia is pushing to build its own version of the service.
But publicly available data shows its latest batch of 16 satellites hasn't reached operational orbit.
That's out of a total of 32 satellites launched so far, for a 37.5% success rate for…
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