Russian rocket carrying U.S. satellite plunges into Pacific Ocean 40 seconds after launch
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 1, 2013 17:06The launch of a Russian rocket carrying an American communications satellite ended in disaster today after it plunged into the sea 40 seconds after blast-off.
It is claimed the rocket’s engines shut off stopped automatically because its trajectory was wrong.
A team control its flight from a boat six kilometres away. A team is now searching for the downed rocket..
The first section of the rocket was scheduled to separate after 2 minutes 30 seconds, and it is understood there was an error in that period.
Company president Kjell Karlsen added: ‘We are very disappointed with the outcome of the launch and offer our sincere regrets to our customer, Intelsat, and their spacecraft provider, BSSI.
‘We will do everything reasonably possible to recover from this unexpected and unfortunate event.’
It is another knock to the reputation of Russia’s space industry as two years ago a communications satellite fell to the ground soon after it was launched.
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