[FPSPACE] Russia Has a Crisis-Free Year In Space

[agzak at optonline.net]

Yea! "Crisis free" as long as you forget annual loss of the workhorse Proton booster with a multibillion-dollar commercial payloads, a virtual destruction of a foreign satellite during pre-launch preparation and deteriorating launch processing infrastructure in Baikonur among other things :)

Anatoly Zak 
http://www.russianspaceweb.com


----- Original Message -----
From: LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com>
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009 11:50 pm
Subject: [FPSPACE] Russia Has a Crisis-Free Year In Space
To: fpspace <fpspace at friends-partners.org>

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> Russia Has A Crisis-Free Year In Space
> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 02, 2009 - Russia's space industry ended 
> 2008 without mishaps. Although old headaches and problems are still 
> there, things have not changed for the worse, and that is quite an 
> achievement in our troubled times writes Andrei Kislyakov. Despite 
> the crisis, Russia is leading the world in rocket launches. On 
> December 25, the last launch this year was carried out: a heavy 
> Proton carrier rocket orbited three satellites of ... more
> 
> 
> http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Russia_Has_A_Crisis_Free_Year_In_Space_999.html
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Anatoly Zak
http://www.russianspaceweb.com