Altai have seen no Proton-M debris as of yet
BARNAUL. May 16 (Interfax) - The Altai territory and the Republic of Altai have no information as of yet about the possible fall to their territories of debris of a Proton-M launch vehicle, which crashed early on Friday morning.
The press center of the Republic of Altai department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being (Rospotrebnadzor) told Interfax the information about the possible fall of rocket debris in the area had not been confirmed.
"We have called every district and Emergency Situations Ministry services and none of them confirms the fall of debris to our territory. There is information that the debris fell outside of our territory, much farther," the press center said.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry department in the Altai territory does not possess information about the possible fall of rocket debris there either.
"We have no information about the fall of debris in our region. We do not possess such information so far," the department press center told Interfax.
Reportedly, the Express-AM4R telecom satellite launched from Baikonur early on Friday morning might have fallen to Altai or the Amur region. That was the tenth space launch conducted by Russia in 2014. All the previous missions of the year were successful.
