ROCKET 🚀 GETS HIT ON LAUNCH - do you think they should have given the go due to the conditions? In May 2019, a Russian Soyuz rocket was struck by lightning during its launch from Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Despite the incident, the rocket successfully delivered its payload, a Glonass-M navigation satellite, into orbit. | Space Knowledge

On the 2nd of July 2013, a Russian Proton-M rocket crashed seconds after launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Carrying three GLONASS navigation satellites, the rocket veered off course due to upside-down installed angular velocity sensors. It exploded in a massive fireball, scattering debris over a 500-meter radius. The failure, caused by manufacturing errors, cost $200 million and halted Proton launches for months. No casualties were reported, but toxic hydrazine fuel prompted evacuat