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A Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites worth around $200-million crashed shortly after lift-off from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan on Tuesday after its engines suddenly switched off.
Posted : July 2, 2013 9:34 am
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too sad, so much hard work wasted :-(. To me - looks like the more engines around the rocket at the bottom the more chances one of them will fail. Soyuz rockets have four engines and seem like have better statistics.
watch this in full screen:
Posted : July 2, 2013 2:37 pm
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Here is one of NASA's GPS launch failures. It exploded so close to the ground, it took out the employee parking lot. Talk about a bad day...
[flash width=420 height=315]//www.youtube.com/v/PWibWshw7T8?version=3&hl=en_US[/flash]
Posted : July 3, 2013 5:18 pm