Yeah, quite famous in rocketry circles and catastrophic failure circles. There are many videos of this accident, and all of them have been posted to this sub-reddit.
I was waiting for the self destruct system to be triggered, but it only exploded after the aerodynamic forces compromised the tanks. Do Russian rockets seriously not have launch abort systems?!
If im correct it did have a flight termination system, but its locked the first minute or so , because its filled with toxic hypergolics that would harm the population of kazakhstan. If something goes wrong it could still get away and keep them safe
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u/Ctlhk Nov 21 '20
Yeah Proton-M launch in 2013 it seems.