A Russian Proton rocket failure sunday morning, resulted in the loss of 3 communication satellites.

The 3 Glonass-M satellites weigh 1,4ton each. They should have joined a network of 26 existing communication stellittes deployed by the russian military.

"According to preliminary data, the Proton rocket that took off from Baikonur at 10.25 EST sunday morning, took a wrong trajectory. Consequently, the booster rocket could not put the satellites in the intended orbit and it fell back with them into the atmosphere," said a Russian space agency source cited by Interfax.

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