Roskosmos denied the loss of military satellites, "Spring" - Reuters

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MOSCOW, May 15 – RIA Novosti. The deputy head of Roskosmos Anatoly Shilov called media reports of abnormal operation of military satellites placed into orbit in January this year, does not reflect reality.

“The spacecraft operated normally. During the booster were his remarks to the control system, which did not affect the results of running” – said the Shilov.

Previously, the newspaper “Izvestia”, citing a source reported that after the launch of three satellites “Spring” 15 January 2013 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the satellites due to failure in the upper stage, were on the abnormal orbit, one of them “can be considered lost “.

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“Information presented in this article, which is issued as a” fact another accident during the launch of space vehicles “is not true. At the specified time from the cosmodrome” Plesetsk “was actually executed launch rocket” rumble “with the upper stage” Breeze-KM “and the block of space vehicles for the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation “, – said Shilov, told reporters.

He said the launch was completed in-orbit close to the calculated, and with the parameters to be within the specified tolerances.

deputy head of Russian Federal Space Agency said that to determine the causes of these comments on the work of the booster “Briz-KM” a working group, which includes representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the organizations of the rocket-space industry. “On the basis of it (working group) work, before the end of May of this year to make a decision on the resumption of rocket launches” rumble “with the upper stage” Breeze-KM “- said the deputy head of Roscosmos.

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Earlier in preparation for the launch of “Rokot” Planned from the cosmodrome “Plesetsk” on December 8, 2012, ASD specialists were identified faults booster “Briz-KM” made in Khrunichev. For this reason, the state commission then stopped all work to address the identified fault.

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Emergency Operation booster “Briz-M” was the cause of abnormal launch rocket “Proton-M”, to put into orbit communication satellites, “Express-MD2″ and “Telkom-3″ in early August of last year. Because of this failure, the satellites were not printed to the nominal geostationary orbit at an altitude of about 36,000 kilometers.

At the end of July last year, the first year and a half start “Rokot”. Previous booster “rumble” was launched in February 2011 with a military satellite “Geo-IK-2″ on the board. At the estimated time he made contact, specialists were able to establish that it is in an orbit that is close to the calculated one. Missile launches “rumble” suspended until the reasons contingency.

Russian Khrunichev Center

Booster easy class “rumble” was created as part of the conversion program on the basis of a release from service of an intercontinental ballistic missile RS-18 (NATO classification – “Stiletto”). The manufacturer “Rokot” – State Research and Production Space Center Khrunichev. The rocket consists of a block of accelerators in the transport and launch container comprising first and second stages, and the ascent unit consisting of upper stage “Breeze-KM”, fairing, the transitional system, the intermediate compartment and the payload bay. The first launch of “Rokot” took place from the Plesetsk cosmodrome May 16, 2000. According to the Defense Ministry, all from the Baikonur was conducted sixteen launches the rocket.