Uragan-M No.48, 49 & 50

Proton-M veered off course and crashed in a fireball about 30 seconds after liftoff from Baikonur, destroying three GLONASS-M navigation satellites worth roughly $200 million. Investigators found first-stage angular-velocity sensors had been installed upside down.

Outcome

Failure

Payload to orbit

Did not reach orbit

Flight

2nd

of 8 Proton-M Blok DM-03 flights

Date and time

2 July 2013, 02:38 UTC

Rocket

Proton-M Blok DM-03

Builder

Khrunichev

Launch site

81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Payload

Unknown

Launches in 2013

36th of 81