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Roscosmos to Decide on Revised 2015 Launch Schedule Next Week

© Sputnik / Oleg Urusov  / Go to the mediabankRussia carried out a total of 38 successful space launches in 2014 to keep the first place in the world, the Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, said
Russia carried out a total of 38 successful space launches in 2014 to keep the first place in the world, the Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, said - Sputnik International
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The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Monday it will decide on a revised schedule of space launches for 2015 on June 9.

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Roscosmos to Announce Date of Next Proton-M Mission in June
MOSCOW (Sputnik) According to Roscosmos, the revised schedule will affect both piloted missions and launches of space freighters.

The announcement came shortly after a state investigative commission reported the results of a probe into the failed launch of the Progress-M27M cargo spacecraft on board a Soyuz-2.1A carrier rocket on April 28.

The commission concluded that the failure had been caused "by an unexpected design incompatibility between the spacecraft and the rocket.

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