Proton accident

2000-02-29T00:00:00

Four engineers have been injured in an accident during a pressure test of a Proton launch vehicle propellant tank in a factory in Moscow's Fileskiy district. A seam in the tank split during a high pressure test. Meanwhile, a 1 x 2m fragment weighing "hundreds of kilogrammes" from a Proton ...

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