Prestige of Jakarta

The Russian public is mourning another space disaster. The cause of the accident of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Breeze-M upper stage, which occurred on Tuesday night, is believed to be a human factor.

Two satellites, Russian and Indonesian, worth about six billion rubles, turned into space debris.

Experts believe that one of the main problems of the domestic space industry is the attitude of people towards their work - the loss of responsibility.

In an interview with RIA NOVOSTI, one of the experts noted that “on the one hand, the loss of the Telkom-3 communications satellite will not be a critical factor for ensuring communications and television broadcasting in Indonesia, but on the other hand, it is a blow to the national prestige of Jakarta. In addition, the situation is aggravated by the fact that this device was made in Russia, having won an international competition for its creation" Source

Of course, Jakarta's prestige suffered - the whole world learned that in order to carry out their very important space project, they got involved with some losers from a third world country.

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