Proton failure pushes back Rockot mission

PARIS – The European Space Agency (ESA) is pushing back launch of its first Earth Explorer research mission, Goce, aboard a Rockot booster from May to August because of a March failure involving the Proton rocket and its Breeze upper stage, which is shared with Rockot. The failure left the SES...

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