Whoops, that’s a pretty expensive program error. Program error caused Russian Glonass satellite loss – source A program error caused a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket to deviate from its course and lose a booster carrying three Glonass-M satellites, a source in the Russian space industry said on Monday. Sunday’s launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket [...]
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