Russian Satellite Crashed Into 'Cosmonaut Street'
A piece of a Russian satellite that came crashing back to earth in Siberia after a failed launch smashed into a house located on "Cosmonaut Street," the Interfax news agency reported Saturday. The Meridian-series communication satellite was launched aboard a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket Friday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome based at Arkhangelsk in northern Russia . The satellite, which was designed to provide communication between ships, planes and coastal stations on the ground, failed to reach orbit and crashed in the Novosibirsk region.