A Russian telecommunications satellite was discovered on a wrong orbit

A Russian telecommunications satellite was discovered on a wrong orbit.

A strong Russian communications satellite, Express-AM4, launched on the night of Wednesday to Thursday and that Russian Space Agency has lost track for a few hours, was found Thursday on a wrong orbit, said a source in the space industry, AFP ."According to tests carried out, the satellite separated from the launcher and is a wrong orbit," the source told Interfax agency. The same source said Thursday morning that the radar did not detect the satellite orbit and determined that it did not emit any signal.On the other hand, the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) said at the launch of the satellite orbit there were some "technical failure"."Specialists (from Roskosmos, no) take measures to restore contact with Express-AM4," said Russian news agency in a statement, adding that a commission was created to determine the cause of the incident.Express-AM4, "the most powerful communications satellite of its kind," the center Krunitchev space, was launched on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a Proton rocket.Satellite - created on Eurostar-300 platform in the center of the cooperation agreement between EADS Astrium Krunitchev and society - weighs five tons and has a shelf life of 15 years. Satellite communications services should ensure and distribution in Russia and CIS countries (former USSR, except Baltic States and Georgia).On 1 February this year, Russia has lost contact with a satellite for military, GEO-IK-2, designed especially to make a detailed map of the Earth 3D. The satellite orbit was discovered after 24 hours.Russian Space Agency has been heavy criticism after failure on 5 December 2010 with the launch of three satellites in orbit Glonass system - designed by Russia to rival the American GPS navigation system and the future European system Galileo.Satellites have fallen into the Pacific Ocean after the failure of mission orbit placement, due to overload of fuel launcher.This failure delayed by at least one year commissioning of the Glonass system, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed at the end of December 2010 two directors of the Russian space industry and criticized Anatoly Perminov, which in turn was dismissed in April.