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Russian Rocket Proton-M Crashes At Launch

Posted by timothy on from the up-is-a-hard-direction dept.

First time accepted submitter Jade_Wayfarer writes "Today, at 02:38 UTC (08:38 local time), Russian rocket Proton-M crashed after only several seconds of flight. Proton-M was carrying 3 GLONASS-M satellites of the ill-fated Russian navigational system. There were no causalities, but evacuation of personnel was ordered because of toxic rocket fuel fumes. Video of the event can be found here."

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  1. probably... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...because the rocket was using GLONASS for navigation instead of GPS.

    1. Re:probably... by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

      Normally AC first post comments are throwaways, but the image of a rocket trying to follow the navigation satellites in its nose made me giggle...

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  2. Dashcam? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to see the dashcam footage!

  3. Just have to keep trying... by MiniMike · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard that the rocket was also carrying Edward Snowdens political asylum request.

  4. No Causalities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There were no causalities, but evacuation of personnel was ordered because of toxic rocket fuel fumes

    Must have been a pretty big explosion to break the laws of space time like that.