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Update: Damaged cable doomed Proton-M, JCSAT 11

Submit on Friday, October 12th, 2007 04:31

The Russian State Commission investigating the unsuccessful launch last month of a Proton vehicle carrying the JCSAT-11 satellite, determined that a damaged pyro firing cable on the interstage truss prevented the activation of the pyro bolts that were to have separated the first and second stages of the rocket.

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