The launch of the Mexican satellite into space orbit Centennial, was frustrated because the Russian-made rocket Proton-M carrying him suffered a failure.
The takeoff of the rocket occurred at 00:47 pm on Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and was broadcast live.
It was planned that the Mexican satellite was put into geostationary orbit position of 113 degrees west longitude, at an altitude of 36 000 km from Earth, to offer telecommunications services to Mexico and parts of South America.
Centennial loss adds to other cases in which the Russian space systems have been damaged purposes because even hours before a mission their devices failed in its goal to begin.
With the failed launch of the Mexican communications satellite Mexsat-1, total and two bugs in the program of Russian space exploration in the past 24 hours, after which not could turn the engines of the space freighter Progress M-26M which was correct radio on the orbiting International Space Station (ISS).
These two incidents also add to the loss, in late April, the Russian space shuttle Progress M-27M, which after its launch from Baikonur was orbiting out of control and broke up a week ago after entering the Earth’s atmosphere. The cost of the mission was about two thousand 600 million rubles.
The Russian news agency RIA quoted an official saying that all rocket of this type would be suspended. The Proton rocket, made in Russia, made its first test flight in the mid 60s.
In July 2013, a Proton rocket carrying three satellites navigation with cost close to $ 200 million, crashed shortly after taking off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome.
The May 16, 2014 a Proton-M rocket failed to put in orbit the communications satellite Express-AM4R due to a failure that occurred during the operation of the third stage of the impeller. The apparatus disintegrated in the dense layers of the atmosphere over China. With information from EFE and Reuters
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