Russia’s federal space agency says an unmanned rocket
and its payload of two communications satellites failed to reach the
orbit, the latest in a series of failures that has dogged Moscow’s space
programme.
Roscosmos said August 07 that a secondary
booster module of the Proton-M rocket carrying Russian and Indonesian
satellites switched off earlier than expected minutes after late
Monday’s takeoff from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Last
August, Russia lost contact with a communications satellite shortly
after a Proton-M launch. In 2007, a Proton-M carrying a Japanese
communications satellite crashed. The 50-metres long booster with a payload of up to 20 metric tons has been in use since 1965.
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