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Moscow (ANTARA News/AFP) - Russia`s top military and space standard launched a research Tuesday for an absent military satellite that apparently was put in the orbit soon after its start. The Russian support ministry established that it'd lost sight of the art -- a dual-use boat that may find the particular roles of numerous goals and draw a three-dimensional map of our Planet. The event got only a month after President Dmitry Medvedev sacked two leading space authorities for an identical problem and sent still another embarrassing blow to Russia`s much-maligned space business. The importance of the circumstance was underscored late Tuesday by studies that the defense ministry had put up an immediate joint task force with the Russia`s space agency to consider the lost art. The Geo-IK-2 satellite was made in Russia to simply help the military study area and produce a step-by-step three-dimensional map of our Planet. It had been made to spin in a circular orbit 1000 kilometers (600 miles) above ground. But media stories stated that the satellite have been place in an an it was brought by orbit lowest point to within 330 kilometers of Earth. "We have still perhaps not had the opportunity to determine connection with the art, and probably, it'll be proclaimed lost," a Russian room supply informed the Interfax-AVN news service it looks. "The spacecraft won't have the ability to accomplish its supposed functions at these orbit characteristics," the news agency was told by another space official. Reviews directed the responsibility for the failure on the satellite`s Briz-KM upper stage rocket. The satellite`s launch had been already postponed from December due to technological failures which were discovered at its upper Russian launch site in Plesetsk. Tuesday`s breakdown got significantly less than five months after Medvedev dismissed two leading space authorities and punished the space agency key for a failure caused Russia to postpone the implementation of its navigation system. Russia`s Proton-M bomb had on that occasion confirmed overweight to achieve its original orbit and had been required to eliminate its three high-tech Glonass-M satellites close to the Hawaii Islands. Detectives said that incident was the result of a simple gas mistake that made its required height to be reached by the craft too heavy. The three Glonass satellites might have completed something whose study was started by the Soviet Union in 1976. (*) http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/12...ellite-reports