Russian Proton heavy boosters
An investigation into the failure of two Russian Proton heavy boosters in July and October has found that the second-stage engines which failed were both out of a batch produced in 1993 in a Voronezh plant that had just resumed operations after nine months of inactivity. The plant's staff and...
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