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Красная Звезда в четверг (Red Star Thursday)

September 13th, 2007 No Comments

 PROTON-M Launch Failure Fallout
On Sept 7th, a Proton-M carrying a Japanese COMSAT exploded shortly after launch from the Baikonur (aka Tyuratam) Cosmodrome, located in Kazakhstan.  In doing so, over 200 tons of toxic chemicals were dumped into the atmosphere, primarily a mixture of heptyl and amyl.  The toxicity is well known and, unfortunately have been [...]

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