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Russian Space Agency Determines Cause of Soyuz Crash

Posted by samzenpus on from the launch-once-measure-twice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The online version of the San Francisco Chronicle reports the cause of the loss of a Soyuz rocket in August. The Russian Space Agency, ROSCOSMOS says a manufacturing flaw led to the failure of a gas generator."

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  1. Re:That was not Soyuz, it was Progress - space tru by clj · · Score: 5, Informative

    A Progress was the payload. The rocket is called Soyuz. (As are the payloads that carry humans.)