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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/failed-russian-rocket-in-sea-crash.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites has crashed in the Pacific, it has been reported" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-failed-russian-rocket-in-sea-crash.jpg" alt="A Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites has crashed in the Pacific, it has been reported"/></a></p>
<p>A rocket carrying three communications satellites has fallen into the Pacific Ocean after failing to reach orbit, in the latest setback to Russia&#8217;s attempts to develop a system to rival the US Global Positioning System.</p>
<p>State news agency RIA Novosti cited an unidentified aerospace industry source as saying the rocket and satellites went into the sea about 900 miles north-west of Honolulu, Hawaii.</p>
<p>Russian space agency Roscosmos declined to comment.</p>
<p>Coast Guard Petty Officer Michael de Nyse in Hawaii said his agency knew about the fallen satellites but was not responding to the scene. </p>
<p>The Proton rocket blasted off on Sunday from the Russian launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. It was carrying three satellites for Russia&#8217;s Global Navigation Satellite System, or Glonass.</p>
<p>The system &#8211; which seeks to be the equivalent of the US Global Positioning System, or GPS &#8211; was developed during the Soviet era and serves both military and civilian purposes.</p>
<p>The government had hoped to make Glonass fully operational by the beginning of 2008, but it was delayed by equipment flaws and other technical problems.</p>
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