Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Roskosmos denies the loss of military satellites, "Spring" - Moskovsky Komsomolets

deputy head of Roskosmos Anatoly Shilov said that media reports of abnormal operation of military satellites placed into orbit in January this year, do not correspond to 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.

Before

wrote that after the launch of three satellites “Spring” 15 January 2013 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the satellites due to failure in the booster unit, were on contingency orbit, one of them “can be considered lost”.

“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” Roar ” with the upper stage “Breeze-KM” and the space vehicle for the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation “, – told reporters Shilov.

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