Satellite Debacle Blame Corrected

An article on page 54 of the March 18 issue should have said the December 2010 launch failure that led to the loss of three Russian Glonass satellites was due to overfueling of the Proton rocket's Energia-built Block DM-03 upper stage, while a manufacturing defect in the Breeze M upper-stage helium...

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