Russian missiles carrying Mexican satellites fall as they launch

The Russian rocket of Proton-M carrying Mexican MexSat-1 telecommunications satellite fell east of Siberia shortly after leaving the launch pad a few minutes.

Rocket  pushed Proton-M Russia to bring the Mexican satellite down when it launched

Roscosmos , the Russian aerospace agency, said the cause of the incident may be due to a broken engine at the third stage, when the rocket is 161 km from Earth, about 8 minutes after leaving. launcher at Baikonour, Kazakhstan.

The agency said that both Boeing's built-in missiles and satellites did not reach the expected orbit, likely to burn in the atmosphere when falling back to Earth.

Authorities in eastern Siberia hope to find debris in the border area of Zabaikalsky , which borders Mongolia and China. However, so far, there has been no announcement to find the fragment. It is unclear how much the loss is, but the Mexican government said it invested $ 300 million in satellites and $ 90 million in launches.

A year ago, Proton-M rocket also destroyed a telecommunications satellite, but then successfully launched 6 other cases. This is the line of boosters developed by Russia since the mid-60s.

Interfax quoted industry sources as saying that this failure could lead to the suspension of all upcoming Proton-M launches, including the launch of the UK satellite launch next month.

According to AP, this is the latest failure in the recent series of incidents of the Russian aerospace industry. Last month, the country's Progressive unmanned spacecraft carrying more than three tons of cargo including food, fuel and supplies needed for astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) was out of control. time and fell to Earth, burned down in the atmosphere, causing losses of nearly 60 million USD.

Experts said that Russia's aviation program is being affected by erosional thinking, the decline in technical standards and quality.

" It seems that the Russian space industry is gradually disintegrating, " said Yuri Karash, a famous space scientist, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Low salaries, no new projects that make people in this industry not interested in researching rocket development like 50 years ago.