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Palomar

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Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: 18 Satellites Destroyed

Russian rocket fails

18 satellites destroyed

A flock of small satellites for a diverse group of international organizations was lost Wednesday after a converted rocket from Russia's strategic missile arsenal fell back to Earth moments after launch. The Dnepr booster was fired out of an underground silo at Baikonur Cosmodrome, but something went wrong early in the launch sequence.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0607/26dnepr/

14 of them were CubeSats...a pity for all those university students. 

--Cindy

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Mars_B4_Moon

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Registered: 2006-03-23

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Re: 18 Satellites Destroyed

Dnepr is one of those ultra-cheap Russian rockets, it extremely cheap because it was meant to be a ballistic missile and only works as a space launcher about 65% of the time.
Cheap is not always better, just like at the Musk/Flacon failure

Stick to the Russian's Proton or Soyuz of you want to get your stuff into space

Robert M. Blevins

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Registered: 2005-05-04

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Re: 18 Satellites Destroyed

Or the old N-1 heavy lift rocket...the Russians would likely have beaten us to the moon using their LOK system (smaller system like Apollo with 2 crew and one-person lander) if the N-1 hadn't kept blowing up.

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