Russia has lost a $45 million satellite, the Meteor-M, because someone put in the wrong coordinates. In what is being called an “embarrassing programming error,” the rocket carrying the satellite thought it was launching from Baikonur instead of Vostochny cosmodrome.



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. Speaking to Rossiya 24 state TV channel, Rogozin said the failure had been caused by human error.

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