"Ed Kyle" wrote:

An ILS Proton M/Briz M failed to put Arabsat 4A into a
planned geosynchronous transfer orbit after launch from
Baikonur Area 200 Pad 39 on February 28. The Briz M
stage suffered some sort of failure during one of its
planned four burns, stranding Arabsat 4A in a useless
orbit.

All singing - all dancing.

(And in the week since the original post - there have been no replies
to Ed's post, and no further discussion... Proof positive of the bias
I've been noting for years.)

D.
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-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL