A Russian Zenit launcher failed shortly after liftoff from a floating SeaLaunch pad south of Hawaii.

Sea Launch Zenit rocket with Intelsat spacecraft fails at launch

This is Bad News for SeaLaunch, which went into bankruptcy in 2007 after a much more spectacular failure on the pad, and which only recently returned to launching paying customers.

Here’s a silent video. Within 20 second of launch, the first stages engines just… stop.

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That’s kinda “huh.”

Here’s their more entertaining failure from ’07:

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