German-Japanese satellite falls into Pacific Ocean

Sunday's launch of the German-Japanese Express satellite from the Kagoshima Space Center in Japan ended in failure when the satellite apparently fell into the Pacific Ocean, according to press reports from Tokyo. The satellite was sent into the wrong orbit when the attitude control device in the...

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