RUSSIAN Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev yesterday said the
country was losing prestige and money due to botched space projects
after it junked two satellites in the latest launch failure to dog the
once-pioneering industry.The failure of a workhorse Proton rocket after launch on Monday caused the multimillion-dollar loss of Indonesia’s Telkom-3 and Russia’s Express-MD2 satellites, according to Russia’s space agency.
