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Russia Loses Contact With Satellite
The AP has reported that Russian ground controllers lost contact with an American commercial satellite. The Russian Kosmos-3 rocket carrying the satellite blasted off Moscow from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arctic. The QuickBird 1 satellite belonged to the Longmont, Colo. company Earth Watch, and was the first of two satellites Earth Watch planned to launch with Russian rockets. The half-ton satellite was made by another Colorado company, Ball Aerospace. It was designed to take high-resolution pictures of the Earth's surface for commercial purposes, such as land management, mapping and environmental studies.
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