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Bad News for Dnepr

By Keith Cowing

NASA Watch

August 1, 2006

Kazakhstan Bans Launches of Russian Dnepr Carrier Rockets After Crash, Mosnews
Utilisation of RS-20 rockets automatically suspended, Gazeta.kz
Manufacturing defect likely cause of Dnepr rocket crash – source, Interfax

“A manufacturing defect could have caused a Dnepr launch vehicle carrying 18 satellites, to crash into an unpopulated area in Kazakhstan on July 27.”

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.