Rocket Crashes After High-Tech Satellite Launch, Russians Say
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 22:00
in Astronomy & Space
A Russian rocket crashed early Friday while attempting to launch an advanced communications satellite into orbit, Russian news outlets reported.The unmanned Russian Proton-M rocket went down nine minutes after blasting off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday local time (5:42 p.m.