The accident took place at 161 km altitude, high enough that the rocket disintegrates into the air falling. “The third floor, the top floor and satellite have almost completely burned,” said Roscosmos.
This failure occurred a few hours after the announcement by Roskosmos the engines of spacecraft Progress M 262M docked to the ISS had failed to start on time (4:00 Moscow time, 0100 GMT) to correct its orbit two new setbacks for the Russian space program, which has a series of embarrassing setbacks.
There are two weeks an unmanned cargo spacecraft Progress supposed to supply the ISS had lost contact with Earth, shortly after takeoff on April 28, and disintegrated in the atmosphere 8 May
A Board of Inquiry to investigate the causes of the accident of the Proton-M rocket, and “take the necessary decisions,” said Roscosmos in a statement. It
scheduled to meet Sunday morning at 10:00 (0700 GMT), said a source in the space industry in Russia’s Interfax news agency, but Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has already ordered the Director of Roskosmos, Igor Komarov to find those responsible. He asked Mr. Komarov “to determine the reasons for this failure” and to appoint those who are “personally and materially responsible,” said his spokeswoman, Natalia Timakova, Interfax.
Agency President Putin was “naturally informed” of the failed launch, said the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by Interfax
-. The rocket fell in Siberia –
“Proton-type rockets launchers will be held down until the cause is identified,” said a source in Roskosmos to government news agency Ria Novosti. The launch took place at 8:47 am Moscow time (5:47 GMT) from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Fragments of the rocket containing several tons of toxic fuel fell back on the Chita region of Siberia, explained the sources of the space industry to Russian news agencies, but the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations recorded no human or material damage.
A second test to start the engines of the Progress spacecraft docked to the ISS will be conducted on the night of Sunday to Monday, told the news agency TASS Vladimir Solovyov, flight director for the Russian segment of the ISS. “We need more time to understand what happened,” he added.
Russia has experienced in recent years a series of problems that have highlighted the deficiencies of its program Space, which allows him to earn millions of dollars by launching commercial satellites.
In summer 2013, a Proton rocket with three Glonass satellites expensive, the future Russian satellite navigation system, had exploded takeoff. In 2011, it was a Soyuz rocket carrying a cargo ship that had malfunctioned, crashing in the Altai region (Mongolian and Chinese borders).
Other failed attempts to put into orbit communication satellites or loss of a probe sent to a satellite of Mars had come to push Russia to recast its space sector, where some heads had jumped.
“Proton is an old rocket. It made numerous launches, one might think that technology improves over time but obviously empire, “said the micro radio Business FM Ivan Moiseyev, director of research at the Space Policy Institute.
> “What we are seeing is a systematic deterioration of production in the Russian space industry,” said a source in the space industry to Ria Novosti.
The Russian space industry must also find a replacement for the British singer Sarah Brightman, who was to take off in September from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia for ten days of tourism in space but on Wednesday announced that it was abandoning his project, officially for “family reasons”.
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