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Commercial Space, Earth, Launches, Satellites, Space Flight

2nd Launch Disaster in 3 Weeks Strikes Russia, Destroying Proton Rocket and Mexican Comsat

16 May , 2015 by Ken Kremer

Russian Proton rocket blasts off at 11:47 a.m. local time (1:47 a.m. EDT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan but ended in disaster about eight minutes later with destruction of the rocket and Mexican comsat satellite payload heading to orbit. Credit: Roscosmos Story updated with additional details [/caption] For the second time in less than […]

Baikonur Cosmodome, Breeze M, Commercial Space, ILS, ISS, Khrunichev, Mexsat 1, Progress 59, Proton rocket, proton-m, Proton-M rocket, Roscosmos, Russian Space program, Sputnik International, TASS

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