WW3: : RUSSIAN PROTON-M ROCKET SHOT DOWN BY U.S. AND NATO (VIDEO)

World War 3 : Russian Proton-M Rocket with advanced Satellite Explodes or is shot down (May16, 2014)




Proton-M rocket carrying Russia's most advanced satellite crashes
A Russian Proton-M rocket with an advanced satellite on board crashed outside of Kazakhstan's territory on Friday, about nine minutes after lift-off. The Express-AM4R would have been Russia’s most advanced and powerful satellite.

The crash was likely caused by a failure in one of the third stage’s steering engines, reported Oleg Ostapenko, the head of the Russian national space agency Roscosmos.

“The exact cause is hard to establish immediately, we will be studying the telemetry. Preliminary information points to an emergency pressure drop in a steering engine of the third stage of the rocket,” he said.

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