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The Russian Space Forces has re-established contact with a military satellite, Geo-IK-2, which went missing in February, local media reported Friday.
According to a spokesman from the Defence Ministry, Interfax news agency said the Space Forces had already received telemetric information from the satellite and collection and analysis of the data were currently underway.
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The Geo-IK-2 Russian defence satellite delivered to a wrong orbit by a Rokot rocket from the Plesetsk spaceport in early February is incapable of fulfilling its mission, First Deputy Defence Minister Vladimir Popovkin told a Sunday press conference at the IDEX 2011 arms show.
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The Russian space agency suggested Monday that a foreign power may have been behind the space accident that disabled one of the country's most modern military satellites earlier this month.
Russia on February 1 launched a high-tech Geo-IK-2 craft to help the military draw a three-dimensional map of the Earth and locate the precise positions of various targets.
News reports said the satellite was a vital part of Russia's effort to match the United States and NATO's ability to target its missiles from space.
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TLE Data
GEOIK2
1 37362U 11005A   11033.73546519  .00131818  00000-0  48751-2 0    75
2 37362 099.4538 043.0897 0451625 095.1180 270.1728 14.65779154   173


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Russia's military says it has located a newly launched military satellite that went missing a day ago after entering into the wrong orbit.
Space Forces chief Lt. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko said Wednesday they located it and established stable communications with the craft.



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Defence satellite launched from Plesetsk

A Rokot rocket took off Russia's Plesetsk spaceport on Tuesday to bring to orbit a defence satellite, Space Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Alexei Zolotukhin told Itar-Tass.
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No signal from military satellite launched two hours ago

Ground services have been unable to contact the Geo-IK-2 geodetic spacecraft launched atop the Rokot carrier rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk region) at 5 p.m. Moscow time on Tuesday.
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The Rokot light-class carrier rocket blasted off at 5:00 p.m. local time (1400 GMT). The Briz-KM upper stage and the satellite are due to separate at 6:35 p.m. (1535 GMT)
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