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Russian satellite crashes into Siberia after launch
• The RawStory.comThe failure of the Soyuz-2.1B rocket — a member of the same family that Russia uses to send humans to space — comes after a supply ship bound for the International Space Station (ISS) carried by a Soyuz crashed into Siberia in August.
“The satellite failed to go into its orbit. A state commission will investigate the causes of the accident,” the spokesman of Russia’s space forces Alexei Zolotukhin told the Interfax news agency.