Soyuz suffers second failure
RUSSIA LOST its second successive Soyuz U booster on 20 June when a Yantar photo reconnaissance satellite launch from Plesetsk failed at T+50s. The payload shroud was torn off and the engines shut down, the booster crashing 8km (4nm) downrange from Plesetsk.
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