It's great when something interesting and innovative gets done, and the launch of Cosmos 1 yesterday fit that profile, in spades, being a solar sail powered spacecraft, launched from a Russian submarine in a converted ICBM. Neat. The problem was that something went wrong, and control lost contact with the craft shortly after launch.
Signals have since been picked up from the craft, but they are weak -- it sounds like Cosmos 1 is in orbit, but the wrong orbit, and the search is on to find it and see if the mission can be rescued. There's a BBC story, and the latest news can be had from the official Cosmos 1 blog.
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