Some satellites did not open the solar panels, others - were in an unplanned orbit. Of the 73 satellites launched on July 14 on the Russian Soyuz-2 rocket. 1а, four more do not react to commands of operators, informs Space News. Thus, the number of devices with which there are various kinds of malfunctions has grown to nine. It's about three CICERO (Community Initiative for Cellular Earth Remote Observation) cubes of the California-based GeoOptics company and one joint Ecuadorian-Russian scientific satellite UTE-UESOR. The interlocutor in GeoOptics, who asked to remain anonymous, declined to comment in detail, referring to the company's policy. Specialist Fausto Rodrigo Freire Carrera, responsible for UTE-UESOR from the Ecuadorian side, told Space News that after July 30, ground services take "sporadic dampening signals" that can not be deciphered. The device was in communication from July 15 to July 30, the received data indicated a low charge of its battery. Experts hope that the work of UTE-UESOR will improve. Earlier, Space News reported that four Russian satellites were not communicating: two coussats from Dauria Aerospace, a student Iskra-MAI-85 (Moscow Aviation Institute) and collected for crowdsfunding facilities. Lighthouse. It was also said that on unplanned orbits was a pair of American satellites: Lemur-2 (Spire Global) and Flock 2k (from Planet Labs). Later, the Moscow Aviation Institute disowned the problems with Iskra-MAI-85. Head of launch programs Glavkosmos, responsible for the removal of vehicles, Vsevolod Kryuchkovsky recognized that the device Flock 2k company Planet Labs did not turn solar panels, and the satellite Lemur-2 from Spire Global was in an unplanned orbit. Otherwise, the manager assessed the situation with the satellites of Russian developers. "This is their first experience in the development of kubsat," he said.. "Maybe something happened on the development side, or with components, or with ground stations". As reported by Correspondent.

net, on July 14 the Soyuz-2 rocket was launched. 1a with a record number of satellites for Russia. Before this, at the same time, a maximum of 36 vehicles were launched on the Russian-Ukrainian conversion rocket Dnepr, launched on June 20, 2014 from the Kapustin Yar test site. The international record belongs to India, which on February 15, 2017 on the carrier PSLV-XL launched 104 satellites.

Original: Russia lost nine satellites after the launch of the Soyuz rocket.