Medvedev ordered to establish a commission that will find those responsible for the accident “Proton» – BFM.Ru

Preliminary cause of the emergency is considered failure of steering engines of the third stage carrier

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered to establish a commission to determine responsibility for the failure to start carrier rocket “Proton” . According to the press secretary of Prime Minister Natalya Timakova TASS. See also: «Space is not necessary to the Russian state.” “Proton” again dropped

«The head of the Russian Space Agency on the phone Komarov reported to the Prime Minister on the emergency situation arising after the launch of” Proton “, as well as the alleged reasons”, – she said. -Premer Minister instructed to create a commission to establish the exact causes of the accident and the results of this work to present proposals on the personal and financial responsibility for the incident »/

The rocket carrier” Proton-M “with the Mexican communication satellite” MekSat-1 “was launched today at 08:47 MSK from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The accident happened on the 497 seconds of when the “contingency work was recorded engine third stage rocket,” said Roscosmos. The incident occurred at an altitude of 161 km.

According to Tass source in the space industry, the provisional cause of failure is a state of emergency steering motor vehicle third stage.