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Dnepr failure reportedThe second Russian Dnepr to fly during the month lifted off from Baikonur's Area 109 with BelKA, the first Belorussian satellite, and 17 other micro-satellites at 19:43 UTC on July 26, 2006, but payload users reported that the mission failed sometime after the first stage separated. Payloads included the Russian university satellite BelKA, a 250 kg remote sensing spacecraft built upon an RSC Energia Yamal spacecraft bus, was supposed to be injected into a 511 km x 97.4 deg sun synchronous earth orbit. The original Dnepr launcher had been replaced by a different one in June after a problem had been detected in the original vehicle's digital flight control system. A Dnepr launch failure, if it occurred, would be the first in seven orbital launch attempts.
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