{"id":39740,"date":"2013-07-02T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=39740"},"modified":"2013-07-02T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T11:35:00","slug":"russia-rocket-crashrussian-proton-m-rocket-exploded-video-breaking-news-39740","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/russia-rocket-crashrussian-proton-m-rocket-exploded-video-breaking-news-39740\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Rocket Crash:Russian Proton-M rocket exploded, Video \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Russian booster rocket carrying three satellites has crashed at a\u00a0Kazakhstan\u2019s Baikonur cosmodrome.<\/h1>\n

A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying three GLONASS navigation satellites crashed soon after takeoff from Kazakhstan\u2019s Baikonur cosmodrome.<\/p>\n

Spectacular footage showed the Proton-M rocket veering off course seconds after its launch in the early hours, before erupting into a ball of flames and unleashing clouds of noxious black smoke.<\/p>\n

“It seems something is going wrong,” said a television commentator during the live coverage of the launch.<\/p>\n

“Something is wrong. It seems it will be a catastrophe,” said the presenter, his voice trembling, shortly before the rocket exploded.<\/p>\n

The rocket was supposed to take three Russian Glonass-M navigation satellites into space.<\/p>\n

The Russian space agency Roskosmos said there appeared to be no casualties, adding it could not immediately say whether areas near the crash site were being evacuated.<\/p>\n

“A rocket carrier fell to the ground and exploded on the territory of the (Baikonur) cosmodrome,” the space agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Kazakh officials said the fumes from the rocket fuel consisting of 600 tons of highly poisonous kerosene, heptyl and amyl might present a danger to the local population.<\/p>\n

Residents of several nearby towns were told to stay indoors and keep their windows shut.<\/p>\n

The Russian space programme has been a source of national pride in the country since it sent the first man into space in 1961 after launching the first Sputnik satellite four years earlier.<\/p>\n

But, more recently, Russia has suffered several major setbacks, notably losing expensive satellites and an unmanned supply ship to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

Russia suffered a disaster at the same\u00a0cosmodrome in 1960 when a prototype rocket exploded on the launch pad and released the highly poisonous rocket fuel known as the “devil’s venom”.<\/p>\n

The Russian space agency referred to that tragedy as a veritable “inferno” – 126 people were burned alive or vaporised altogether, while others died of noxious fumes or succumbed to burns later.<\/p>\n

The Soviet Union, which was then locked in an arms race with the US, imposed total secrecy over the disaster and the files were only declassified in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

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