Yuzhnoye blames 'random' computer glitches for Zenit loss

Ukraine's NPO Yuzhnoye has blamed the Sept. 10 failure of a Zenit booster carrying 12 U.S. Globalstar low Earth orbit communications satellites on a "random" computer error and not a design flaw. According to news reports from Kiev, a Ukrainian-Russian review board determined that the failure was...

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