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Booster separation error seen as most likely cause of Soyuz launch failure — source – TASS

Shortly after liftoff, the Soyuz’s booster malfunctioned, forcing the crew to abort the mission and make a ballistic descent

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BAIKONUR, October 11. /TASS/. The state commission investigating Thursdays failed launch of a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket sees a strap-on booster separation error as the most likely cause of the accident, a rocket and space industry source told TASS on Thursday.”Based on the results of their meeting, the state commission views a malfunction during the strap-on booster separation process as the most likely reason for the Soyuz-FG launch failure,” the source said
A Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the ma…

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