Аварийный пуск ракетоносителя “Протон-М” с 3-мя космическими аппаратами Глонасс. 02.07.2013

Amazing video showing today’s failed Russian rocket launch.

Things of note. It appears that the range safety officer didn’t trigger the safeties - the rocket came apart and blew up after hitting the ground, even though it was quickly apparent that the rocket was not behaving properly - it was rocking over, and another video clearly shows one of the engines not firing properly.

This launch failure will have repercussions for the Russian commercial satellite business, since this is another failure among its launches in the past few years. It doesn’t appear to be an issue with the manned launches that rely on a different engine configuration.