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Boom, a modest collection of launch failures
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post Sep 29 2006, 03:19 PM
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A few videos of rocket launch failures

M-69: The Proton is actually one of the most reliable modern vehicles, but it had a few problems in its early days. The M-69 Mars orbiter was an unfortunately loss for the Russians. It could have been the first artificial Mars satellite and returned the first half-way decent photos of the planet's surface. And 1 kiloton of rocket fuel makes for an explosion comparable to a tactical nuke.

Delta II: The loss of the GPS-2 satellite in a Delta-II launch failure. This is the original footage, not very high resolution, but it lacks the exagerated fake effects added in another popular video of the event.

Long-March: Failure of a Chinese Long-March rocket. Sorry I could not edit the audio, which is cranked up so high it is mostly clipped. Turn down the volume on this one.

Soyuz Foton: Soyuz failure during launch of Foton satellite. Gives a good sense of the panic among some European tourists who were standing pretty close to the pad. Some colorful but appropriate language.
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post Sep 29 2006, 11:02 PM
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- DonPMitchell   Boom   Sep 29 2006, 03:19 PM
- - Sunspot   I remember seeing the Delta launch failure on the ...   Sep 29 2006, 04:17 PM
- - lyford   Perhaps append to this thread? And you have convi...   Sep 29 2006, 04:43 PM
- - djellison   I had not seen that Soyuz video before - the time ...   Sep 29 2006, 08:30 PM
|- - ugordan   Approximately 2 seconds or 700 meters!   Sep 29 2006, 10:07 PM
- - Jyril   Beautiful but so horrible!   Sep 29 2006, 11:02 PM

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