Indian booster
Indian scientists at the National Aeronautical Laboratory vowed to build their own space-launch boosters after Russia reneged on the sale of rocket technology under US threat of sanctions, AFP reports from New Delhi.
Russia froze a deal to supply two rocket engines and related technology. Washington says India could use the technology to develop its ballistic-missile technology and that it was in violation of the Missile Technology Control Regime.
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