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Russia Suffers Another Proton Launch Failure

Marcia S. Smith
Posted: 07-Aug-2012
Updated: 07-Aug-2012 11:21 AM

Russia has suffered another failure of its Proton rocket system.   Early reports indicate that the Briz upper stage malfunctioned.

The launch yesterday was intended to place Indonesia's Telkom-3 and Russia's Ekspress-MD2 communications satellites into geostationary orbit.  More details to come when available.  Anatoly Zak at Russianspaceweb.com explains what is known at the moment.


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