Inside The Ring: Rocket Cyber Attack? -- Washington Times
Russia’s space program suffered another spectacular and costly failure on Tuesday, when a Proton-M rocket booster exploded shortly after launch, a disaster that is likely to trigger new Russian claims of sabotage.
According to state-run television Roskosmos, the Russian space agency, determined the launch failure was caused by “an emergency shutdown of the engines” some 16 seconds after liftoff.
Said Roskosmos‘ spokesman Aleksey Kuznetsov: “An emergency situation occurred when [the] Proton-M launch vehicle was launched from Baikonour space launch site on 2 July. At the stage of the ascent of the launch vehicle, 16 seconds into its flight, there was an emergency shutdown of the engines and the vehicle fell back into the space center compound.”
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My Comment: You will have to scroll down for more news on the claim that this crash may be the result of espionage/cyber attack .... including remarks made by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin that foul play may be involved. What's my take .... these are explosive claims, and if the Russian investigation does uncover espionage and/or a cyber attack .... the Russians are going to be incredibly upset and they will be looking for revenge/retaliation.
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If (and that's a big IF) it's true, then Cyber terrorism has taken its first stride into claiming lives and has become a physical threat.
However, I very much doubt any institution would risk the wrath of the Russians for staging such a bold and risky sabatoge attempt for what, a rocket?
More likely that Russian politics is at play here, and this is a simple scape-goat used by Roskosmos to place the blame elsewhere; "Hey, it wasn't our fault! It was someone else!"
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