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Home / News / Proton-M rocket carrying Russia's most advanced satellite crashes
The launch went abnormal on the 540th second of the flight, when an emergency engines shutdown kicked in in response to the rocket deviating from its intended trajectory, the Russian Federal Space Agency reported after the crash. The third stage, which is called Briz-M, was approximately 150km above the ground at that moment and had some 40 seconds to go before deploying its payload into the orbit. I know, let's follow ULA's lead and make our launch capability dependent on these guys. It's too bad we don't have any other space companies with heavy lift capacity who are willing to lift satellites for us. Oh wait... Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-16 |
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