Soyuz satellite launch and catastrophic failure

Help keep poeTV running

And please consider not blocking ads here. They help pay for the server. Pennies at a time. Literally.

Comment count is 10

Syd Midnight - 2008-07-27

Because it was noticed in "Boom Crash Bang", a great moment in the history of Accidents & Explosions, and a very bad moment in the life of one poor Foton M-1 satellite.

Personally, I'd like to find the rocket launch whose countdown culminated in the capsule ejecting and drifting away on a parachute.

Cleaner82

- 2008-07-27

Fuckin' 'ell about covers it. That is wild.

Millard

- 2008-07-27

I want to be on an ESA team. :(

And no, silly British man, everyone did not run "miles". You went about ten feet.

Desidiosus

- 2008-07-27

Thanks Syd.

I was going to bump off a star for the Blair Witch part at the end, but then we got the classic line, "Everyone's just lying on the ground shitting themselves."

Repomancer

- 2008-07-27

"Something blew up!"

YA THINK?

Hooper_X

- 2008-07-27

"A long string of successful Soyuz launches was broken on October 15, 2002 when the unmanned Soyuz U launch of the Photon-M satellite from Plesetsk fell back near the launch pad and exploded 29 seconds after lift-off. One person from the ground crew was killed and eight injured."

Fookinell indeed.

Cleaner82 - 2008-07-27

That was undoubtably a hell of a final ten seconds for that unlucky crew member.

RockBolt

- 2008-07-27

"Yeaaah, whooo..... FUKIN HELL!"

That thing went off like an a-bomb

Syd Midnight - 2008-07-28

IIRC, all but 2 of its engines failed and shut down, so it had an almost full load of fuel and oxygen when it came back down.

Keefu

- 2008-08-03

Boom.

	\| 73Q Music Videos \| Vote On Clips \| Submit \| Login \|
Random - Hot Videos - Rated: 7 Days \| 30 Days \| All Time - Favorited: 7 Days \| 30 Days \| All Time - Viewed: 7 Days \| 30 Days \| All Time