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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."

2 of 145 comments (clear)

  1. Was that sucker nuclear? by Stele · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I didn't read the article but from the name of the rocket it sounds like it's nuclear-powered. I hope there wasn't much contamination!

  2. Obvious - NSA missed! by Skiron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    After hacking in to the controls, NSA missed trying to take out Snowden.