Soyuz launch failure due to ‘deformation’ during assembly: Russian official

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KOROLYOV, Russia, Nov 1, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A Russian rocket that carried
two people to space last month failed and sent the craft back to Earth
because of “deformation” of a part that was made during assembly at the
cosmodrome, a space official said Thursday.

“The cause of a non-standard separation (of the rocket’s second stage)”
was a “deformation” of a part during assembly at the Baikonur cosmodrome,
said Oleg Skorobogatov who headed the Russian commission probing the
accident.