



A Russian Proton-M rocket with a very advanced satellite on board crashed not far from Kazakhstan’s territory on Friday. It was only in the air for about nine minutes before it crashed out -or was it taken down? If it made to its final destination, the Express-AM4R would have been Russia’s most advanced and powerful satellite to date.



The crash was likely caused by a failure in one of the third stage’s steering engines, reported Oleg Ostapenko, the head of the Russian national space agency Roscosmos says Russia Today.





You can see this object come in on the right side of your screen.



Russian Proton-M Rocket Enhanced Version :

What we find interesting is that whether we watch the video above or the below below, there is clearly an object that is racing towards the direction of the rocket and in some way either makes contact or interferes right before the rocket goes off course and crashes.