# Russian Rocket Crash **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526 **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [July 2, 2013, 5:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526 "2013-07-02T05:37:21Z") **Posts on this page:** 11 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32) #### Post date: [July 2, 2013, 5:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526/1 "2013-07-02T05:37:21Z")
Happened today. This doesn’t happen too often: [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/c/0/c030c224ab84d7a0adf1ee1354fa8bac9e597cc0.jpeg "Raw: Russian Rocket Crashes After Launch") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogUkEpBRNUg) > The rocket exploded over the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan > > An unmanned Russian Proton-M rocket has crashed just seconds after its launch from the Russian Baikonur facility in Kazakhstan. > > Dramatic video footage broadcast by Russian TV shows the rocket break up before exploding into a fireball over the Baikonur cosmodrome. > > Russia’s Interfax news agency reported that up to 500 tonnes of poisonous rocket fuel may have been released and contaminated the crash site. > > There were no reported injuries. > > The rocket was carrying three satellites for Russia’s Glonass (global) navigation satellite system. > > It is not yet clear what caused the accident. > > It is not the first incident involving a Proton-M rocket, according to the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg in Moscow. > > A similar rocket crashed shortly after it was launched six years ago, and in 2010 another rocket failed to put three navigation satellites into orbit. > **[Unmanned Russian rocket crashes in Kazakhstan](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23140665)** > > An unmanned Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites crashes seconds after its launch from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan. ---
### Author: ![yamba6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/yamba6/32/5161_2.png) [@yamba6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/yamba6) #### Post date: [July 2, 2013, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526/2 "2013-07-02T06:13:49Z")
Reminds me of these guys! ![http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/320/869/320869358_640.jpg](http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/320/869/320869358_640.jpg) ---
### Author: ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS) #### Post date: [July 2, 2013, 6:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526/3 "2013-07-02T06:17:43Z")
Russia borrowing tech from NK or something? ---
### Author: ![Beck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/beck/32/28683_2.png) [@Beck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Beck) #### Post date: [July 2, 2013, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526/4 "2013-07-02T06:49:54Z")
Just another day in Russia. ---
### Author: ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing) #### Post date: [July 2, 2013, 8:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526/5 "2013-07-02T08:04:58Z")
No Bure no care. ---
### Author: ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS) #### Post date: [July 2, 2013, 8:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526/6 "2013-07-02T08:09:21Z")
I’m kind of disappointed and surprised the rocket didn’t have a dashcam. ---
### Author: ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32) #### Post date: [July 2, 2013, 8:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526/7 "2013-07-02T08:18:55Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > I’m kind of disappointed and surprised the rocket didn’t have a dashcam. 👏 ---
### Author: ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker) #### Post date: [July 2, 2013, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526/8 "2013-07-02T08:22:00Z")
> [@bing](#): > > No Bure no care. +1 ---
### Author: ![L8APEX1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/l8apex1/32/7276_2.png) [@L8APEX1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/L8APEX1) #### Post date: [July 2, 2013, 8:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526/9 "2013-07-02T08:36:47Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > I’m kind of disappointed and surprised the rocket didn’t have a dashcam. that was my first thought lol ---
### Author: ![Random\_Hero](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/random_hero/32/5235_2.png) [@Random\_Hero](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Random_Hero) #### Post date: [July 6, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526/10 "2013-07-06T20:36:45Z")
> [@yamba6](#): > > Reminds me of these guys! > > ![http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/320/869/320869358_640.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/8/5/85b25a1568e8aff50d6446a7efc41d5b8ac38bb7.jpeg) Silly Kerbans ---
### Author: ![yamba6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/yamba6/32/5161_2.png) [@yamba6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/yamba6) #### Post date: [July 8, 2013, 5:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-rocket-crash/231526/11 "2013-07-08T05:47:32Z")
> [@Random\_Hero](#): > > Silly Kerbans Thank you, I was hoping someone new what this was. I just loved when the one guy would freak out no matter what you were doing. I noticed they changed it recently so its not like it used to be when I had the beta version.