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Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said during an interview on channel “Russia-1” in the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin “on the situation with the first failed launch at the Vostočny spaceport in 2016 and the reaction of the head of state to what happened.
The first launch from the new spaceport was to take place on the 27th, but the launch vehicle. “Soyuz-2.1a” did not take off with three Russian satellites, the automatic canceled the launch.
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& quot; They are hard-to-imagine specialists. “He decided to stay because there was a certainty that the launch would be successful,” the head of state spokesman said.
startup was due to a failure of one of the sensors.