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Soyuz TMA-02M, Launch Escape System installed

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - Completed, moreover, the designers' review and fairing incapsulation

Preparations for the launch of Soyuz TMA-02M mission are going on at Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. In recent days were completed, the Russian Federal Space Agency unveils, the designers' review and fairing incapsulation and, later, the installation of stabilization panels of the Launch escape System in the forward area fairing of the shuttle. The system installed, Roscosmos reports, "Serves...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1130433
Rome, Italy, 06/03/2011 12:24
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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