Rogozin explained the fall of missiles moral decay of top managers – RBC

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin at a plenary session of the State Duma of the Russian Federation

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With the criticism of top management of the Russian space sphere Deputy Prime Minister made on Tuesday by the State Duma. “With this expansion in the company’s management is not surprising such a high accident rate,” – said Rogozin, who said that “the heads of the space for a long time were in their space.” Vice Prime Minister expressed the hope that the power of “legal gravity will take them [those responsible for the failure of start-ups of" progress "and" Proton "] where it should be” (quoted by RIA Novosti news agency).

Rogozin stressed that the accident rocket “Proton-M”, which occurred on May 16 repeats a similar situation in 1988 and 2014, indicating a common cause failure. “The latest accident, which occurred on Saturday with the” Proton “, surprisingly one in one coincides with the crash of 1988 and 2014 – the same failure of the same engine third stage rocket” Proton-M “- was quoted by Interfax .

According to the vice-premier, this means that the state commission that worked on two previous occasions, have not found the true cause. “That is, there is some structural illness, and honor now to find this disease,” – Rogozin said, adding that it is necessary to find the reason that similar incidents do not recur. Head of Roskosmos Igor Komarov instructed to personally lead a commission to investigate.

Over the last two weeks was two large emergency in the Russian space industry. Launched May 16 in the morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch vehicle “Proton-M” with the Mexican satellite MexSat-1 crashed presumably due to the failure of steering engines of the first stage.

This was preceded by another failure in the space industry. April 28 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch vehicle “Soyuz 2.1a” the ship “Progress”. After separation of the third stage, the truck stopped coming telemetry. “Progress” was not able to enter the calculated orbit. In late April, the Federal Space Agency acknowledged the loss of “progress”, and on May 8 Office reported that the spacecraft burned up in the dense layers of the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.

Speaking at the State Duma, Rogozin also announced that investigators found damage to more than 9 billion rubles., applied to the State Research and Production Space Center Khrunichev (Khrunichev, a developer of rocket “Proton-M”) actions of former employees. As a result of joint work with the FSB, the Interior Ministry, Russian Investigative Committee opened eight criminal cases, he said. Deputy Prime Minister said that “at a high moral corruption chiefs should not be surprised poor quality products,” recalling the accident carrier rocket “Proton-M”.