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Negligence behind the loss of Express AM-4 satellite and Progress M-12M cargo shuttle (VIDEO)

Moscow, Russia - Employees of guilty companies should be penalised

The failure to launch the Express AM-4 satellite and the Progress M-12M cargo shuttle loaded on the Proton-M rocket was a result of negligence staff of the aerospace companies. A spokesman declared that this news was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General. It happened last 18 August, when shortly after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the carrier did not manage to send into orbit...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1134854
Rome, Italy, 10/18/2011 15:01
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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