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Soyuz rocket fails on launch from Plesetsk cosmodrome carrying ESA experiment payload

16 October 2002

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The free-flyer Foton-M1, passenger aboard the Soyuz launcher that exploded just after lift-off from the Russian Plestetsk cosmodrome on 15 October 2002