Excellent footage proton-M rocket erupting in a ball of fire and a cloud of noxious black smoke unleashing, before breaking up in mid-air, only at 6:38 AM (0238 GMT) launch speed after veering off shown.
"It looks like something is going wrong," a Russian television commentator Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan's Central Asian state, said during the live coverage of the launch.
"Something is wrong. Seems it will be a disaster," host rocket exploded shortly before, his voice trembling, said.
President Vladimir Putin was informed of the accident, the Kremlin said in a statement.
On the ground that Russia leases from Kazakhstan cosmodrome 2.5 km away from the launch pad, the rocket fell, three Russian Glonass-M navigation satellite into space was going to take.
Highly toxic rocket fuel rocket fuel component of the soil, heptyl and amyl of 600 tons, Kazakhstan's space agency, Talgat Musabayev chief said.
Russian space agency Roskosmos, citing preliminary information, the accident caused no damage or casualties, but the crash site was immediately cordoned Baikonur to the residents of nearby towns to stay indoors and have been asked to keep windows closed.
Heptyl a highly toxic component of rocket fuel and chemical weapons are known to be toxic than Sarin.
Kazakh authorities have a lot of fuel burned and the people I immediately played down the threat.
A spokesman for Kazakhstan's space agency officials GMT happened in 0600 and soil samples was found no effect of heptyl and amyl told AFP.
Local people said the explosion sounded like thunder and he was not unduly concerned about their safety, he said.
"They stay in the house and asked us not to open the windows," Kyzyl-Orda from Baikonur city 300 kilometers (185 miles) is in the independent Umurzakov, a 46-year-old driver said.
"He can not go out the cattle to pasture, but no one paid attention," he told AFP.
Officials cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was formed in a cloud of smoke that could be moved out of the area said earlier on Tuesday.
Trusted professionals ruin the reputation of proton-M rocket is a big blow.
"For commercial use proton is our main workhorse" of the analyst Vadim Lukashevich told AFP. "Now that traders should look for another career that will start thinking."
The possibility of Russia's cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to increase the rental payment will be more pressure is coming.
Leading Kazakh environmental activist Mels Yeleusizov Russians blamed for the disaster.
"It really is full slovenliness. Accidents happen all the time," he said. "It's high time for proton is banned."
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The most recent disaster to memory a prototype rocket exploded on the launch pad and the "devil's venom" of highly toxic rocket fuel is given in when the Baikonur cosmodrome in 1960 brought a devastating rocket attack.
Others died later from harmful fumes or burns succumbed to the Russian Space Agency, a true "hell" is said during the accident, 126 people were burnt alive or totally vaporised.
With the United States was locked in an arms race with the Soviet Union, a secret force of the disaster, and the files were declassified in the 1990s.
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