Things have been travelling swimmingly in the field of spaceflight for a little while now, with even the Russians having a string of flawless launches, and the odd technical glitches not impeding the prime purpose of a few missions.
Until today, when this happened, just a few minutes ago:
The coverage of this launch was really dodgy, no sound, and I couldn't get it to play where I am at all. So no surprise when it dropped out bang on the launch moment, which is why the footage in this clip freezes at that point.
The Proton-M mission was to place three Glonass-M global positioning satellites into orbit, as Russia builds their own equivalent of the US GPS network.
There's a discussion thread on NASA Spaceflight that's worth a read and to check out the many screen grabs from people who were able to get the feed:
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