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Failed bearing blamed in Proton launch failure

Submit on Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 22:59

The crash of the Proton space rocket on 16 May was due to a failed bearing in the steering engine’s turbo pump, the chief of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, Oleg Ostapenko, was quoted as saying.

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