Monday, April 7, 2008

Russian Rockets: Reliability Risks?

April 5, 2008: For the third time in two years, a Russian satellite launcher failed to put a foreign satellite into orbit. This time, it got the American AMC-14 satellite most of the way there, but left the bird 8,000 kilometers short of its 36,000 kilometer stationary orbit.

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