Media reported about the failed launch of the Chinese rocket Long March 4C (long March 4C). Official news agencies have not confirmed the information about the disaster. The missile was launched Wednesday from the Baikonur Taiyuan at 2:55 local time and had to get satellite Gaofen-10 on heliosynchronous orbit.
China conducts launches in secrecy, particularly in the case of launches in the interests of the military from Taiyuan cosmodrome and the impending launch becomes known after navigational warnings in drop zones for spent stages. About the launch is announced in the official media after successful completion of the mission — about 40 minutes after the start, but this time it did not happen, and the official media are silent. U.S. Space Surveillance did not detect any new objects in earth orbit, which confirms the first unsuccessful launch of a Long March 4C in 2016.
Thursday morning began to receive reports that the villagers found the wreckage of the rocket. The wreckage of the first stage was discovered (first photo) in the expected impact area of 600 km from the start. Next, at 1050 km from the cosmodrome, in the center of the second zone of the fall of the steps, remnants of a head fairing, which confirms that the flight was normal until the late stages of the second stage. The problem arose, or with the second step or the third. The failure of the third stage is a very rare defect for a Long March 4C and in this case, a bad start will not affect subsequent runs.
In mid-September, is scheduled to launch a new space station Tiangong-2 using rocket Long March 2F and then run to her Shenzhou-11 with a crew of two people in October.
Sources:
http://english.news.cn/
http://spaceflight101.com/gaofen-10-launch-failure/