A Russian rocket just crashed indorsement after it was launch from a spaceport in Kazakhstan . Footage from local news channels shows how the rocket wobbled through the sky as it rise into the air , before disintegrate and falling back to Earth .
The rocket , called Proton - M , was carrying three navigation satellites into outer space — but was as luck would have it remote-controlled . According to the Interfax news authority , it fell 1 kilometer from its launch area less than a minute of select off .
There are currently no reported ground injuries so far — but the news authority reportsthat the clang site could have been infect with hundreds of tons of toxicant heptyl and amyl from the fuel :
“ The rocket diminish during the first second of its flight when its tanks hold about 500 tons of fuel . A lot of decontamination body of work may have to be done at the crash site . ”
It ’s not the first time a Proton - M rocket has shown weaknesses : one break up after launch from Baikonur in 2007 , and a booster fell from one into the Pacific Ocean in 2010 . This incident does n’t do a circumstances for its caterpillar tread record . [ InterfaxviaBBCviaVerge ]
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