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OTD In Space – March 18: Soviet Rocket Explosion Kills 48 People
On March 18, 1980, a Soviet rocket exploded on the launchpad and killed 48 people. The Vostok-2M rocket was about to launch a new spy satellite called Tselina-D. Military technicians were working ...
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Defunct Soviet satellite may collide with foreign rocket debris, says Roscosmos
The defunct Soviet Cosmos-2004 satellite may collide ... that the Cosmos-2004 satellite and a stage of a foreign carrier rocket may simultaneously cross the same flight trajectory," the Roscosmos ...