The Planetary Society's
Cosmos-1 team is
still looking at the data that was
received at the three ground stations on
launch day in hopes of finding out what happened to their spacecraft. However with
Makeev reporting that that the
rocket's stages never separated, it seems too optimistic to hope that the spacecraft achieved even a low, non-nominal,
orbit and it is far more likely that the craft was destroyed along with its malfunctioning launch vehicle.
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