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04th Jul 2013

Video: Incredible footage of a Russian rocket crashing after launch

JOE

A rocket carrying Russian satellites came back down to earth with a bang earlier this week, and this incredible footage captured the whole incident

According to The Economic Times, there were fears that a very strange cloud of toxic gas was headed towards the town of Baikonur as a result of the crash, but heavy rains cleared the cloud before it reached a populated area.

No one was hurt in the crash according to Russian news, but the rocket was valued at about $200 million, so someone is surely going to have some questions to answer as to exactly what went wrong.

There is sound in this video, you just need to give it a few seconds after the launch of the rocket to get a blast of the noise, so make sure your headphones aren’t up too high. Fair play to the guy filming it too, he doesn’t even flinch.

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