A Russian spatial rocket that was not crewed and that was taking a Japanese satellite smashed on Thursday after detaching of the throwing platform in Kazakhstan, said the emergency Department.

The propellent Proton - m with the Japanese satellite of communications JCSAT-11 smashed in field opened after detaching of the Baikonur cosmodrome, without nobody turning out to be an injured man, said.

"The provisional place of the fall is 40 km to the south-west of the city of Zhezkazgan", he informed the department in a bulletin, in reference to the industrial locality that is in the center of the ancient Soviet republic of the center of Asia.

The president kazajo, Nursultan Nazarbayev, was of visit in Zhezkazgan at the moment of the accident, said to Reuters a person in charge of the presidential administration.

The emergency Department told that the accident owed to a bad functioning of the engine. Several persons in charge in Baikonur - that Russia rents Kazakhstan - are investigating the accident.

It was not possible to contact in an immediate way with the principal center of Russian control.

The rockets Proton take a highly poisonous fuel. The last accident of this type of rocket, used from 1965, took place in Baikonur eight years ago.

The channel of news Russian Vesti-24 said that the authorities kazajas have suspended the throwings from the cosmodrome in expectation of the result of the investigation, but there was no official assertion of this end.

One hopes that the accident should increase the tension between Russia and Kazakhstan for Baikonur. The authorities kazajas have complained about the damages caused in the environment by the throwings, and want that they are under his control.

The prime minister, Karim Masimov, said to the press in Astana that it has arranged the creation of a state commission to investigate the happened.

"The culprit of this will be identified, be who is, and the damage done to our environment will be compensated by those who have violated it", he added.


(Agencies, 06/09/07)