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“Today there is no clarity why the propulsion unit on board Fobos-Grunt failed to start. It is also unclear why our satellites often have failures at the time when they fly out of range (of Russian ground control) where we don’t see the vehicle and do not receive telemetry from it. There is no wish to accuse anybody, but today there are very powerful means of influence on spacecraft and the possibility of their use can not be excluded.” – Vladimir Popovkin, head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, in an interview with the Izvestiya daily.
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