| Catastrophe At Plesetsk
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Launch of Foton-M microgravity research mission on October 15 ended in a disaster due to a foreign piece of metal in Soyuz strap-on booster's hydrogen peroxide pump. Launch pad and receiver station were damaged and future launches from two Area 43 pads cannot be performed before repairs are finished.
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| Foton-M: The First But Not The Last One
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| Teledesic To Halt Work
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| Under The Sign Of Integral
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European gamma-ray observatory was successfully launched by Russian Proton just two days after the Plesetsk failure.
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| China Augments Military Presence In Space
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Zi Yuan 2 is probably the second Chinese satellite for electro-optical reconnaissance.
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