Russian rocket launches hit overflight snags
AUG 26, 2008
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.022622
Space.com : In another frustrating foul-up on the path towards converting Soviet-era military missiles into cash-paying satellite launchers, a military-industrial team in Moscow has announced the “indefinite suspension” of plans to launch an earth resources survey satellite for Thailand.The reasons: at the last moment, for the second time, overflight permission has been revoked by a country downrange of the launch site. First Uzbekistan, and now Kazakhstan, denied permission for dropping the booster’s spent first stage onto their territories.
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