TORONTO – A man recording a Russian Proton-M rocket launch got more than he bargained for on Tuesday.
The unmanned Russian rocket crashed and exploded seconds after liftoff. It was loaded with three Glonass communication satellites.
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Six hundred tons of toxic heptyl amyl and kerosene rocket fuel resulted in a fiery explosion, sending up a cloud of poisonous smoke.
There have been three other failures of Proton-M rockets over the past three years.
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