This past Tuesday, in the middle of the equatorial Pacific Ocean, a 209-foot Zenit-3SL unmanned rocket sat on a floating platform awaiting launch. On board that rocket was an NSS 8, a 96-transponder satellite. Sea Launch streamed a live Webcast of its launching of a 209-foot satellite-carrying rocket from an unmanned floating platform. The video was meant to promote the company’s launch to the general public and interested investors. Or so they thought. See what happened when things went horribly, horribly wrong
Via Net-O-Rama and Popular Mechanics