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Russian Proton rocket carrying advanced satellite crashes
RT ^ | 5-15-2014 | RT

Posted on 05/15/2014 5:07:47 PM PDT by tcrlaf

A Russian Proton-M rocket with an advanced satellite on board crashed outside of Kazakhstan's territory on Friday, about nine minutes after lift-off. The Express-AM4R would have been Russia’s most advanced and powerful satellite.

There are so far no reports of damage or casualties resulting from the Proton-M's failure to deliver the satellite into orbit.

The rocket could have crashed over the Altai Mountains or the Pacific Ocean, a source told RIA Novosti.

All other launches of Proton-type rockets will be halted at Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan until the reason for the crash is determined, a source told RIA Novosti.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: launch; proton; russia
Satellite was carrying Internet transponders for access to remote regions of Russia...
1 posted on 05/15/2014 5:07:47 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

They don’t know where it crashed? You mean to tell me a rocket powerful enough to get a payload to space, carrying a satellite, didn’t have any kind way to be tracked by GPS?


2 posted on 05/15/2014 5:10:00 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
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To: tcrlaf

crashed on its own or with help


3 posted on 05/15/2014 5:10:05 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: tcrlaf

Ok, I’ll hush, that headline’s too easy a target .. lol


4 posted on 05/15/2014 5:10:38 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: tcrlaf

9 minutes after lift off is nearly in low orbit.


5 posted on 05/15/2014 5:12:04 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: wastedyears
It probably came down over several hundred square miles of crash site. When something goes wrong with rockets, there aren't a lot of big pieces left, and they are hardly ever together when they land.

/johnny

6 posted on 05/15/2014 5:13:38 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: cripplecreek
Yep. Probably over the Pacific. Lots of the Pacific.

/johnny

7 posted on 05/15/2014 5:14:45 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: tcrlaf

Those mountains are a long way from the Pacific.


8 posted on 05/15/2014 5:15:01 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party)
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To: tomkat

“Ok, I’ll hush, that headline’s too easy a target .. lol”

Ya, I suspect even an advanced satellite has a hard time carrying a proton rocket. That is kind of how it read.

Try this one on. “Russian Proton Rocket, Carrying an Advanced Satellite, crashes.”


9 posted on 05/15/2014 5:27:01 PM PDT by LevinFan
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To: cripplecreek
9 minutes after lift off is nearly in low orbit.

Was thinking the same thing, 9 minutes, that sucker was pretty well hooked up speed wise.

Wonder if they hit the self destruct when they saw it wouldn't reach orbital speed.

10 posted on 05/15/2014 5:40:20 PM PDT by The Cajun (tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

I’m guessing it probably went down over the Pacific. At 9 minutes it would have been much further downrange than the Altai Mountains.


11 posted on 05/15/2014 5:43:37 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: LevinFan

Mixed syntax or something? Reminds me of the silly yuletide song, “Throw The Yule Log On Uncle John.”


12 posted on 05/15/2014 7:03:44 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and in politic)
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To: tcrlaf

Perhaps they should use Trampolines to launch their satellites... :-)


13 posted on 05/15/2014 7:31:07 PM PDT by Rebel_Ace (Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
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To: Rebel_Ace

The Proton was a reliable launch vehicle for a large number of the Iridium block 1 satellites (over 100 spacecraft)


14 posted on 05/15/2014 7:38:13 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: nonsporting

I know, I was just shooting back their snark at us.


15 posted on 05/15/2014 7:57:40 PM PDT by Rebel_Ace (Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
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To: cripplecreek

They have recently had some problems with this (very large) rocket. Heads will roll. In the old days, that was literally true.


16 posted on 05/15/2014 7:57:58 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Rebel_Ace

Russian space program is more intensive than of the rest of the world combined. It is more likely for them to have a crash in hundred launches than for a NASA, launching a dozen missions for that same period of time. Not to mention that NASA and military are using Russian equipment to launch their stuff.


17 posted on 05/15/2014 11:43:47 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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Russian space program is more intensive than of the rest of the world combined. It is more likely for them to have a crash in hundred launches than for a NASA, launching a dozen missions for that same period of time. Not to mention that NASA and military are using Russian equipment to launch their stuff.

...

This makes two big failures in a matter of weeks. I wonder if our spooks have something to do with it.

I’m also recalling that we had a Navy satellite “shatter” in space a few months ago.


18 posted on 05/16/2015 7:38:04 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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