Russian booster explodes, fails to launch satellite
MOSCOW - An unmanned Russian Soyuz-U rocket exploded shortly after liftoff Oct. 15 due to a first-stage malfunction, dooming the Foton M-1 research satellite it was carrying. Both the 14,300-pound spacecraft and the Soyuz-U launcher were built by the TsSKB-Progress space center of Samara. News...
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