More than 620 tons of extremely toxic propellants were aboard the rocket
A Russian Proton-M rocket reportedly carrying three navigation and global positioning satellites crashed soon after launch from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday morning, Russian Media reported.
The extremely toxic propellants used in the rocket were a combination of the hypergolic oxidizer, dinitrogen tetroxide, and hydrazine or its relatives monomethyl hydrazine and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine.
“It’s either the control system or the engine that has caused the accident. If the accident occurred in the first 10 to 20 seconds, then the engine is likely to be the cause,” an informed source in the space agency told RIA Novosty News Agency.
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