Due to the delayed start-up of the engine stop “Union” Russian rocket with the satellite – Rosbalt.RU

March 12, 2016, 22:59 | space | Company | satellite | Source P

 “Soyuz-2.1b” with the satellite “Resurs-P” Canceled launch rocket. The incident happened right during the start to the “Baikonur”: malfunctioned Automatic

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 Roscosmos sets the cause of the failure, a special commission will be created, said the state-owned corporation.

 

 On site office it clarifies exactly what happened. “During the launch of the carrier rocket” Soyuz-2.1b “with the spacecraft remote sensing” Resurs-P “number 3 was an automatic shutdown of the engine”, – said in the press

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 It was assumed that the “Soyuz-2.1b” will send a satellite into orbit at 21:56 MSK.

 

 The Russian space industry is not excluded that the launches of carrier rockets “Soyuz” type from the cosmodrome “Baikonur”, most likely, will be suspended until the reasons of the accident. “The next was to be the launch of” Soyuz-FG “with a new crew to the International Space Station on 19 March. Do not rule out, although so far and we can not say that this launch will be postponed, “- said the source RIA Novosti

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 TASS news agency reports that the current state of emergency may prevent the start and the first rocket “Soyuz-2.1a” from the cosmodrome “East” in the Amur region.

 

 At the same time, “Roskosmos” reported that the changes in March schedule launches will not. The state corporation has already called back the start date of “Resource-P” – March 13 at 21:56 MSK

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 Spacecraft Remote Sensing “Resurs-P» № 3, weighing nearly 6 tons had to replenish constellation of civilian means of detailed sensing. Produces machines Samara KB.