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assessment  Cosmos 1, the experimental, solar sail-powered
spacecraft launched yesterday from a Russian submarine, has gone
missing. Although faint signals detected by tracking stations
seem to suggest that the craft is alive and well, mission
scientists don't seem to be able to find it in orbit.  The
mission has been jointly funded by a TV production company and
the California-based Planetary Society, a space advocacy group
founded by the astronomer, science fiction author, and champion
of science in general, Carl Sagan. Bruce Murray, co-founder of
the Planetary Society, said yesterday that the signals were very
good news because it meant the craft was "very likely in orbit".
Mission controllers lost contact with the craft almost as soon
as it blasted off yesterday evening, and was presumed lost.
However, after some hour