Russian satellite lost after being set to launch from wrong spaceport
by Reuters from on (#3BSXH)
Deputy prime minister admits programmers gave the $45m device coordinates for Baikonur rather than Vostochny cosmodrome
Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday the loss of a 2.6bn-rouble ($45m) satellite launched 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 country's far east.
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