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Space rocket BelKa fragments found near Baikonur

Space rocket BelKa fragments found near Baikonur

Baikonur. August 11. Kazakhstan Today - Fragments of space apparatus BelKa were found near Baikonur. The Federal Space Center Baikonur informed the agency.

As it was informed earlier, on July, 27 at 1.43 a.m. RS- 20 with the group of space satellites carrier rocket Dnepr was launched from cosmodrome Baikonur. In the 73rd second the rocket crashed.

The carrier rocket Dnepr was found approximately in 150 km from the launching spot in the area of settlement Zhanakala. The crater formed in the crash area with diameter of approximately 50 meters and 10 meters in depth.

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