Russia Blames Outside Meddling for Space Failures, Izvestia Says
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Russian space chief Vladimir Popovkin said outside interference may be to blame for a series of mission failures, including the loss of a Mars-bound probe, Izvestia reported.
“I don’t want to blame anyone, but today there are powerful means to affect the trajectory of spacecraft, and we can’t exclude that these have been deployed,” Popovkin, head of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, was quoted as saying by the Moscow-based newspaper.