The first satellite from Russia's nascent attempt to build a domestic broadband constellation fell back into Earth's atmosphere and burned up on approximately June 6, 2026, less than three months after it launched, according to reporting by Anatoly Zak, a

Oh no! Whoopsie

The absence of any official government statement about the launch points to the sensitivity surrounding the program, which sits at the intersection of Russia’s commercial space ambitions, its military communications requirements, and the broader contest over satellite-based internet infrastructure that Starlink has made a strategic priority for governments worldwide.

Darn, maybe bullshitting absolutely everything including rocket design doesn’t work out in the end?

Maybe shithead oligarchs are too incompetent to be trusted to competently run space programs?

  • Fisting for Freedom@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    Unfortunately, they sent up 15 other satellites in the same launch. These flew from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Archangelsk, about 800km north of Moscow; I know it’s kind of a stretch, but really want to see Ukraine send some drones to participate in the next launch.