Debris from failed Russian rocket launch causes UFO frenzy in northeastern China

Debris from failed Russian rocket launch causes UFO frenzy in northeastern China

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Willy Lam is away this week. Video clips of bright celestial objects falling from the sky caused sensational excitement and popular befuddlement in Helongjiang province in the northeastern most region of China. It turned out however that the objects were burning debris from a failed Russian rocket launched […]

Russia’s Proton-M rocket crashed before achieving orbit in expensive failure

Russia’s Proton-M rocket crashed before achieving orbit in expensive failure

Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s gigantic 5.8-ton Proton-M rocket carrying an expensive Ekspress-AM4R satellite crashed 9 minutes after it was launched on May 15 from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. It was only 40 seconds short of reaching the designated orbit. The Proton rocket is one of the world’s largest launch vehicles and it […]