| Launch of Russian Proton-M carrier rocket postponed Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 27, 2011 - The launch of a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a Dutch telecommunications satellite SES-4 (NSS-14) onboard was called off on Monday due to "technical problems", a spokesman for the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said. He said the new date for launch was being discussed. He did not elaborate on the cause of the delay. The launch would have been the 70th commerci ... more |  |
| Siberian man miraculously unharmed as satellite piece crashes through roof Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 27, 2011 - A Siberian resident miraculously escaped serious injury or even death when a fragment of a Russian communication satellite crashed through the roof of his house. A Meridian satellite that was launched on Friday from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia on board a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket crashed near the Siberian city of Tobolsk minutes after liftoff. Eight satellite fragments ... more |
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