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Ex-Soviet engines fingered after Antares ROCKET launch BLAST

Simon Ball

Re: Depressing

Ah, my bad. Thanks for the information. Although does it not illustrate roughly the same point? It's not that the NK33 was particularly unreliable as an individual unit, just that they were used in a configuration where the failure of one, or a small number, had a grossly disproportionate impact on the rocket as whole.

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