Russian Rocket Crashes Into Pacific Ocean After Failed Launch

[kawaraj]

A Russian rocket carrying a US communications satellite plunged into the Pacific Ocean moments after being launched from a mobile sea platform.
In Russia's latest space failure, the accident, meant the Boeing corporation lost an Intelsat satellite that was to provide TV feeds not only the United States but also Europe and Latin America.
"There was an accident during the Zenit rocket launch," a source at the Energia corporation that makes the Zenit-3SL rocket used to lift up the Intelsat satellite told AFP.
"The rocket fell into the Pacific Ocean."
Officials said no one was hurt on the huge Odyssey platform that was once stationed off the oil-rich coast of Norway before being tugged to the Pacific by an international consortium called Sea Launch.


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[kawaraj]

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-...n-space-probe-crashes-into-pacific-ocean.html
One year ago

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Two years ago

 

[atulya]

i think ,bear is quiet ill now a days.

 

[PteX]

Chernobyl ALMOST worked.

 

[Archdemon]

Failure is always an option, happens to the best of us.

 

[kawaraj]

Chernobyl ALMOST worked.

Not as effective as the severeness of their outdated techs, or vulnerable to Even a slight sabotage effort from the west.

 

[fast]

Ouch. That hurts. Russians are rapidly losing their core competency. Rocket launching used to be bread and butter for them. This commercial sat launching is not really cutting edge. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[PteX]

Not as effective as the severeness of their outdated techs, or vulnerable to Even a slight sabotage effort from the west.

Google the reference.

 

[Sugarcane]

Russian Proton rocket feared lost after botched launch — RT News

 

[Economic superpower]

Russian space program is in a sad state. Another failure just weeks after the rocket to launch supplies to the ISS failed.

Before that the joint Mars mission with China failed due to Russian incompetence.

 

[kṣamā]

This commercial sat launching is not really cutting edge. What could possibly go wrong?

Is that so? How many nations have mastered ??

 

[Nan Yang]

Is that so? How many nations have mastered ??

Quite a lot actually