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The Ciel 2 satellite at 129 degrees West apparently suffered an outage late 13 September local time.
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The Ekspress AM4 satellite, which was stranded in a useless orbit after launch on 18 August, is alive and communicating with the ground. This is good news, even though the spacecraft is still considered a total loss.

The root cause for the Progress M-12M transport ship accident on 24 August was a manufacturing flaw, Roskosmos said. [One might call it a quality control problem.]

The failure of a Chang Zheng 2C rocket on 18 August was caused by a second stage malfunction, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) confirmed.
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Ingosstrakh, the company that insured the launch of Ekspress AM4, said it would pay satellite operator RSCC the claimed indemnity by the end of 2011.

A Russian independent commission has established the reasons behind the loss of South Korea’s KSLV-1 launch vehicle in 2010, Nikolai Panichkin, first deputy general director of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMASH), was quoted as saying.

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The Progress M-12M transport ship accident on August 24 was caused by a malfunction in the gas generator in the Soyuz carrier rocket’s third stage engine, Roskosmos spokesman Alexei Kuznetsov was quoted as saying.
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