[QUOTE]Russia launched their Proton rocket Tuesday morning local time, carrying three satellites for the GLONASS navigation system. However, liftoff from site 81/24 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome – which occurred at 02:38 UTC (08:38 local time) – ended seconds later, with a dramatic failure that resulted in a huge impact at the spaceport.
The launch occurred on time, with the Proton-M lifting off as per usual in its dramatic fashion. However, the rocket almost immediately veered to one side, before trying to correct itself, in turn sending it veering in the opposite direction.
The vehicle they flew horizontal, before starting to plummet back to Earth, with its engines stiil firing. Aerodynamic stress saw the payload fairing and upper part of the rocket collapse and disintegrate before the Proton crashed back on to the pad complex.
No immediate reports of causalities have been forthcoming, although this is a concern given the close proximity the Russian engineers stage themselves, ahead of racing back to the pad less than a minute after launch.
However, unconfirmed Russian reports cite the rocket crashed near Pad 200 at the spaceport, resulting in no causalities
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[url]http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/07/proton-m-launch-three-glonass/[/url]
[video=youtube;dH3bY6-ObGg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH3bY6-ObGg[/video]
GLONASS is very expensive. Let alone 3 of them.
this is an everyday occurence when i play ksp
[QUOTE=Medevilae;41274461]Any word on what the failure was that caused this?[/QUOTE]
Early reports say a fuel miscalculation in one of the tanks. I guess a lot of engineers are going to lose their jobs today.
I noticed some oscillations when they fired up the engines, so damage to a booster when it launched? Not certain, those shock diamonds in the exhaust looked beautiful though.
Oh man the way it swung the wrong way then back and overcorrected... it's just like Kerbal Space Program.
I think it was a damaged booster, there was some smoke coming from one of them as it started to veer to the left.
Looked like engine failure to my untrained, and inexperienced eyes.
From my point of view, I think the problem was that the rocket flipped over. I may be wrong though...
[QUOTE]"It's either the control system or the engine that has caused the accident. If the accident occurred in the first 10 to 20 seconds, than the engine is likely to be the cause," a source in the space agency told RIA. [/QUOTE]
[url]http://rt.com/news/proton-m-rocket-takeoff-crash-514/[/url]
Should have disabled SAS
Glad that was an unmanned rocket.[QUOTE=Del91;41274548]Looked like engine failure to my untrained, and inexperienced eyes.[/QUOTE]
Looked to me that the computers simply overcompensated for an unexpected yaw.
Looks like one engine went up
Well on the bright side they have developed a very elaborate way of blowing the shit out of something a kilometer away.
I wonder how many billions were lost right there.
looks like either a turbopump failure or engine failure, you can see the big puff of what looks like unburnt fuel then the thing started veering off
[editline]2nd July 2013[/editline]
this isn't too good for russia's reputation, the proton M is the largest booster rocket in production today, and this is like the 4th failure in four years, not too promising for russia's big comercial lifter
[QUOTE=Sableye;41274724]looks like either a turbopump failure or engine failure, you can see the big puff of what looks like unburnt fuel then the thing started veering off
[editline]2nd July 2013[/editline]
this isn't too good for russia's reputation, the proton M is the largest booster rocket in production today, and this is like the 4th one to fail in a year, not too promising for russia's big comercial lifter[/QUOTE]
Good thing they're replacing it.
[QUOTE=TestECull;41274649]Glad that was an unmanned rocket.
Looked to me that the computers simply overcompensated for an unexpected yaw.[/QUOTE]
Probably caused by an engine getting stuffed.
When the rocket started flipping over I was yelling "ZOOM OUT!" Good thing the camera guy somehow found it again
Holy shit that explosion was way bigger than I thought it'd be.
I like how the reporter was calm during the entire thing.
[editline]1st July 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=bisousbisous;41274816]Holy shit that explosion was way bigger than I thought it'd be.[/QUOTE]
Larger rockets (Such as the one in the video) tend to have insane amounts of highly volatile (and self oxidizing) fuel. I'm surprised it wasn't bigger.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;41274875]I like how the reporter was calm during the entire thing.
[editline]1st July 2013[/editline]
Larger rockets (Such as the one in the video) tend to have insane amounts of highly volatile (and self oxidizing) fuel. I'm surprised it wasn't bigger.[/QUOTE]
Not entirely calm, he said "everything goes wrong" when the rocket flipped over.
looks like an average day in gm_flatgrass
haha this is just like that video game
call of duty
it looks like 10 feet tall on the launch pad
Dammit Jeb!
bet someone put the guidance system in upside down, the rocket takes off, flips out thinking its falling and flips over and crashes. just another day in kerbal space.....wait thats an actual rocket.....
That reporter sounded like he was reading a traffic report. How could you not go holy shit the rocket flipped over, look at all that money burn.
[video=youtube;lKtxmXBRsBc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKtxmXBRsBc[/video]
I had to do it
[QUOTE=seek;41274623]From my point of view, I think the problem was that the rocket flipped over. I may be wrong though...[/QUOTE]
I think the problem was when it hit the ground.
You could clearly see that it wasn't designed to do that.
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