Russian newspaper says spy satellite was expensive test dummy
A new-model imaging reconnaissance satellite launched Monday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome may have been nothing more than an expensive test article for the kick stage that boosted it toward geosynchronous orbit, a newspaper here has suggested. The satellite was orbited on a heavy Proton-K booster...
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