Russian Rocket Explodes

[grimreaper009]

A russian rocket exploded destroying a Mexican satellite. Mexico's satellite crashed into Siberia just minutes after launch this morning. The Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage launched out of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhsta at 11:47 am local time (1:47:39 a.m. EDT). The first two stages went fine, but just 497 seconds into launch and at an altitude of 161 kilometers, the third stage engine booster went catastrophically wrong in a rapid unscheduled disassembly. While no details on the disaster were released by Roscosmos, the state-owned news agency Tass reports the accident was caused by a problem with the steering engine of the Proton?s third stage. This looked kind of cool tho lol
[video=youtube;MrnOnnzYLU4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=113&v=MrnOnnzYLU4[/video]

 

[Shadowhunter]

Wow....all that hard work and BOOM!