Russian Booster Rocket Crashes in Kazakhstan A Russian booster rocket carrying three satellites crashed at a Russia-leased cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday shortly after the launch. The Proton-M booster unexpectedly shut down the engine 17 seconds into the flight and crashed some 2 kilometers (over a mile) away from the Baikonur launch pad,
http://www.bugsbunnys8s.biz/, the Russian Space Agency said in a statement. Russian officials said there were no casualties or damage immediately reported. Meanwhile,
http://www.jordangrapes5s.biz/, the Interfax news agency quoted Kazakh Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Bozhkov as saying that the burning rocket fuel has blanketed the launch pad with a toxic cloud.
But he said authorities have yet to determine its potential danger to the environment. Another Proton-M booster crashed in Baikonur in August 2012 when it failed to place two satellites into orbit. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev chided officials after that incident,
http://www.squadronblues13s.biz/, saying that Russia had lost ten satellites in seven failed launches in just over a year. Russian space officials have blamed the failures on manufacturing flaws and engineering mistakes. But observers say that the problem is rooted in a post-Soviet industrial meltdown that has stalled the modernization of the space industry.
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