Russian booster rocket crashes in Kazakhstan

W.G.Ewald

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News from The Associated Press
A Russian booster rocket carrying three satellites crashed shortly after launch at a Russian-leased cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Tuesday.

The Proton-M booster unexpectedly shut down the engine 17 seconds into the flight and crashed some 2 kilometers (over a mile) away from the Baikonur launch pad, the Russian Space Agency said in a statement.

News channel Rossiya-24 broadcast the launch live on Tuesday morning. The footage showed the rocket tilt to one side shortly after the launch, curve downward, catch fire and crash.
 
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On my discussion with Viktor on this issue
Russia : Space News and Discussion - Page 5

Still take a look at the overall launches:


- 2007 - 26 launch (1 failed)
- 2008 - 27 launch (1 failed)
- 2009 - 32 launch (1 failed)
- 2010 - 31 launch (1 failed)
- 2011 - 35 launch (5 failed)
- 2012 - 29 launch (2 failed)
- 2013 - 18 launch (2 failed) - in progress

That makes 198 launches in almost 7 year time with 93.44% success rate - which is overall very good score but still there are plenty of room to improvement


at the same time US performed

- 2007 - 29 launch (2 failed)
- 2008 - 15 launch (1 failed)
- 2009 - 24 launch (1 failed)
- 2010 - 15 launch (0 failed)
- 2011 - 18 launch (1 failed)
- 2012 - 13 launch (1 failed)
- 2013 - 8 launch (0 failed) - in progress

That makes 122 launches in almost 7 years time with 95.082% success rate - which is not that much better than Russia while at the same time

Russia performed 38.4% more launches (almost 40% more)

But if we want to be mean we can remember that many US rockets and S.Korea rockets use Russian engines (RD-180 and its derivatives with % tend to increase

due to NK-33 purchased by the US) making US rockets essentially Russian ones. In that view we can safely conclude that Russian space market hold under its

grip 70-80% of all world launches. So lets not panic immediately
 

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