Unusual Ukrainian rocket launch from Baikonur frightened local residents – to Pravda.Ru

plane crash or terrorist attack? Such questions were asked residents of the Altai Mountains after Baikonur late on December 11 launch vehicle “Zenit-2SB” Ukrainian production with a Russian weather satellite “Eletro-L”.

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“There was a roar and the flying bright object, I thought it was some kind of terrorist attack. However, the Internet has quickly found that it really is the launch from Baikonur,” – said reader edition of the site “News of the Altai Mountains” about their feelings on this start.

Indeed, the passage of a spaceship over the region was rather unusual, as the fall fairing. By the usual launch the “Proton” and “Soyuz” locals have long been accustomed and know how to behave in the sky these carriers. However, the “Zenith” flying is not the case.

“Towards Turochak think something fell. It was very scary, it was like a falling plane,” – wrote some residents region. “It would be good time to warn about such things, not scare people,” – complained of “News of the Altai Mountains” one of the readers.

spacecraft “Electro-L” №2 is a meteorological remote sensing device that will provide multispectral imaging the entire disk of the Earth in the visible and infrared range.

Booster middle class, “Zenit-2SB” made in the factory “Pivdenmash” in Dnepropetrovsk. At its creation it was used as Ukrainian and Russian components and assemblies. Currently, the production of missiles, “Zenith” has been suspended due to the termination of cooperation with Russia.

Launch missiles – generally it is very difficult and not always possible to foresee everything. As reported to Pravda.Ru, the failure of the control system is probably caused abnormal behavior in Earth orbit military satellite “Canopus-ST”, put into orbit on December 5 and entered the dense layers of the atmosphere on December 8th. As a result, from the upper stage “Volga” does not separate one from the military satellites. In this regard, currently under discussion with the intelligence orbit and subsequent flooding of the unit with the block removal. This was stated by a source in the space industry.

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