After the launch of the carrier rocket "proton-M" on Saturday morning a minute before the estimated time of separation of the upper stage "breeze-m" and the Mexican spacecraft resulted in an emergency situation. "Roscosmos" informed the Ministry of emergency situations of the Chita region on the possible area of falling of fragments of the carrier rocket.

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After the launch of the carrier rocket "proton-M" on Saturday morning a minute before the estimated time of separation of the upper stage "breeze-m" and the Mexican spacecraft resulted in an emergency situation. "Roscosmos" informed the Ministry of emergency situations of the Chita region on the possible area of falling of fragments of the carrier rocket.

As reported by "RIA Novosti" with reference to the representative of the Ministry of emergency situations, the victims and destructions on the site of the alleged crash of Proton-M" no. The height of fall of the third stage of "Proton" with the head unit was 160 kilometers, all the fragments were supposed to burn up in the atmosphere. The presumed crash site is located in the Chita region, 30 km from the nearest settlement, writes Lenta.".

Satellite MexSat-1 was to be launched into geostationary orbit and placed in the orbital position 113 degrees West longitude. From there, the spacecraft was to provide communications services to Mexico and Central parts of South America. The mass of the MexSat-1 is 5.4 tons. Active lifetime in orbit is 15 years.

the Next satellite MexSat-2 will be launched into orbit with the help of the American Atlas-5 launch site at Cape Canaveral. It is noted that this is the second emergency situation for the current day: the night does not start the engines of the space truck "Progress", which was planned to carry out a correction of the height of the orbit of the ISS flight.