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Russian space rocket crashes with military payload
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-21 14:27
A Russian rocket carrying a military satellite into orbit crashed to earth in
Siberia soon after launch on Tuesday, Russian news agencies reported.
Officials said they believed no one on the ground had been hurt when the
unmanned Molnia-M rocket came down in the thinly-populated Tyumen region in
western Siberia.
The rocket was launched from the Plesetsk military cosmodrome. Helicopters
were being used to help search for wreckage from the rocket, officials said.
"The military communications satellite has not been delivered into orbit
because the rocket ... suffered engine failure," Itar Tass news agency quoted
Alexei Kuznetsov, a spokesman for Russia's military space programme, as
saying.
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