A Pounds 3.5 million satellite designed and built by Surrey University engineers for Chile has been declared lost in space after it failed to detach from a Ukranian spacecraft after its launch last week. The satellite would have been a first for Chile and was to have been used for global communications, monitoring weather and volcanic activity.
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