Russian Space Officials Punished for Botched Satellite Launch (SPACE.com)
3:49pm GMT, Thursday, 30 December 2010
SPACE.com - Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev has formally reprimanded the chief of his country’s
national space agency and fired two other high-ranking space officials over the
loss of three state-of-the-art navigation satellites in a botched rocket launch
earlier this month.
Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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