The Souyz-2 spacecraft with Meteor-M satellite and 18 additional small satellites launches from Russia's new Vostochny cosmodrome, near the town of Tsiolkovsky in Amur region, Russia, on Nov. 28, 2017. (Stringer/Reuters)
CBC/Reuters: Russia has figured out what caused its rocket to fail during launch
Rocket was programmed with coordinates for wrong cosmodrome.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday the failed launch of a 2.6 billion-rouble ($57 million Cdn) satellite last month was due to an embarrassing programming error.
Russian space agency Roscosmos said last month it had lost contact with the newly-launched weather satellite — the Meteor-M — after it blasted off from Russia's new Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far East.
Eighteen smaller satellites belonging to scientific, research and commercial companies from Russia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Japan, Canada and Germany, were on board the same rocket.
Speaking to Rossiya 24 state TV channel, Rogozin said the failure had been caused by human error.
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