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Overheated combustion chamber may have caused Dnepr crash

Submit on Saturday, August 12th, 2006 07:12

Experts have come up with a preliminary version of what may have caused the emergency shutdown of a Dnepr rocket engine and the subsequent crash of the launcher. Meanwhile, the rocket’s second and upper stage as well as the satellites it carried have been found.

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