May 16
Russia has suffered another embarrassing and expensive rocket failure, with today’s Proton launch failing just minutes after take-off. The incident above Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan destroyed a $1.6bn Boeing-made satellite which Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, was launching for the Mexican government’s Ministry of Communications and Transportation, not to mention again calling into question the country’s capacity for commercial space … Continue reading
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