Mars failure

The commission investigating the failure of the Russian Mars '96 mission (Flight International, 27 November-3 December, 1996) has failed to identify the cause, citing 20 possible scenarios focusing primarily on the fourth stage of the Proton launcher, which failed to fire correctly for a second time after reaching initial parking ...

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