Inertial platform fault to blame for Chinese Long March crash

1996-03-06T00:00:00

CHINA GREAT WALL Industry (CGWIC) says that telemetry data from its failed Long March 3B booster indicates that the control system's inertial-guidance platform failed T+2s after lift-off from Xichang on 14 February.

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