Russian missile fails test launch
September 28th, 2011 - 5:56 pm ICT by IANSMoscow, Sep 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Yars RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile has failed a test launch, Russia’s Space Forces confirmed Wednesday.
The missile was launched Tuesday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, 800 km from Moscow.
The launch was the first of a prototype modification of the missile. The test concerned a new warhead for the solid-fuel missile.
“The firing from Plesetsk on September 27 was part of testing by the manufacturer of a new series of missiles,” Space Forces spokesman Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
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