Russian Supply Vehicle To ISS Burns

First time accepted submitter Oxford_Comma_Lover writes "The Russian cargo spacecraft 'Progress' developed problems and burned up in the atmosphere shortly after its launch at 1300 GMT. From the article: 'The Russian space agency said the Progress M-12M cargo ship was not placed in the correct orbit by its rocket and fell back to Earth. The vessel was carrying three tonnes of supplies for the ISS astronauts.'"

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Re:Second loss in a week

[TehHustler]

This is most likely a quality control issue, not a design issue which would have turned up in the last 40 years, you would think.