RAPID TURNAROUND

Russia seems to have gotten its Proton heavy-lift space launcher back together after a November 1996 failure sent the Mars-96 probe spinning back to Earth. Last week's launch of seven Iridium low-Earth orbit communications satellites was Proton's third since May 24, leaving less than two weeks...

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