A Soyuz rocket and a Russian military communications satellite crashed in Siberia on Friday, continuing a pesky series of launch mishaps blemishing Russia's space program in the last year. File photo of a Soyuz rocket on the launch pad at Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Credit: Roscosmos Russian rocket failures have lost navigation, research and communications satellites since December 2010. Another Soyuz rocket crashed in August with a Progress resupply craft bound for the International Space Station. And Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars probe is stuck in orbit around Earth after its rocket pack floundered shortly after launch in November. The Phobos-Grunt craft, which was designed to return samples from a...
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