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2013-07-02, 08:12 AM
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Russian Rocket Carrying Navigation Satellites Gets Lost, Arrives At Ground (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nycaviation/~3/_C1JtzuxuOk/)

Early Tuesday, a Russian Proton-M rocket with a payload of three satellites malfunctioned almost immediately after launch, crashing down back into the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three satellites were destined to become a part of the GLONASS constellation, a Russian version of the American GPS system, which has been undergoing modernization [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nycaviation/~4/_C1JtzuxuOk
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