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International Launch Services (ILS) says the Dec. 8, 2012, failure of a Proton rocket equipped with a Briz M upper stage has been traced to too-high propellant temperatures at liftoff that caused damage to a bearing in the Briz M main engine turbo pump. ILS says the most probable root cause of the...
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