head raced over the Proton-M rocket back to Earth and hit right next to her starting point on the cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan a [1] . With the launch failure Russia’s space agency Roscosmos [2] lost is its three expensive navigation satellites for the Glonass system. The head of the agency, Vladimir Popovkin, the designers are now from the carrier rocket Proton-M blame for the disaster. “In my opinion, designers and technologists are guilty,” Popovkin said, according to a report by the Russian news agency Ria Novosti this week before a commission to determine the causes of the crash.
cause for the sudden reversal of the rocket Shortly after the start of the indications for follow several were mounted in wrong direction on the missile angular velocity sensors. The blame for this error does not Popovkin but at the fitters who made the mistake, but with the design engineers. They would have to exclude his opinion this error by appropriate design measures. “In our opinion, the single rocket can not be damaged on purpose.” The agency head said. The Commission reached the conclusion that the missiles will be monitored in the camp and be out of reach for perpetrators of acts of sabotage. After the cause of the crash is cleared, Roskosmos plans to launch four to five Proton rockets this year. However, the Russian government will decide in mid-September on the resumption of starts. “We in the government are waiting for reports from the Roskosmos Authority and the Ministry of Defence, the mid-September to notify us of clarified and eliminate errors in knowledge, so that more proton rockets can be launched,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday the television channel Rossiya 24 [3] . <- ! AUTHOR MARKER DATA BEGIN -> <-! RSPEAK_STOP -> ( tig [4] )<- RSPEAK_START -> <- AUTHOR DATA MARKER END ->
