A Russian Rocket carrying a Mexican satellite has malfunctioned and crashed in Siberia on Saturday May 16,2015
The Proton-M carrier rocket broke down minutes after it was launched from Kazakhstan on Saturday morning, the Roscosmos agency said.
The cause of the accident is being investigated
Russia earns large amounts of foreign exchange from the launches of Western and Asian commercial satellites.
The Proton-M carrier rocket is Russia's main vehicle for commercial satellite launches, but in recent years has been repeatedly grounded because of mechanical difficulties.
Russia has been using Proton carriers since the Soviet era and now has a monopoly on sending astronauts to the ISS following the mothballing of the US Space Shuttle programme.
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