Russia's central bank loses Kupon-1 satellite

Ground controllers last week lost contact with Russia's Kupon-1 satellite, threatening an ambitious project of Russia's central bank to establish an efficient data relay system for its widespread banking network. Kupon-1, the first of three planned satellites for the Bankir system, was orbited Nov...

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