Russia has refused to put a free Ukraine rocket engine – BFM.Ru

Without it, not Kiev will orbit its satellite broadcast

Roskosmos refused to grant Ukraine RD-171M for the rocket “Zenit”, dedicated to the orbit of the first Ukrainian geostationary satellite broadcasting “Lybid” (start was scheduled for mid-2014), according to “Izvestia».

Dnepropetrovsk “Pivdenmash” producing “Zenith”, within the last 5 months sought from the Russian side of the engine without the delivery charge. But in the end the parties were unable to reach an agreement.

In the space agency does not see any reason to supply equipment for the “Zenith” to make payments, because the company is essentially bankrupt.

The sharp decline in production “Pivdenmash” due to the fact that the Federal Space Agency last year stopped to buy a rocket “Zenit” for start-ups in the framework of the Federal Space Program. This year, the RSC “Energia” has decided to providing satellite launches “Zenith” from a floating offshore platform.

So media family “Zenith” were not wanted, and the production, perhaps the last rocket to launch the Ukrainian a satellite of the “Yuzhmash” no money. The satellite “Lybid”, according to a representative of Roscosmos, is ready and is being stored in the JSC “ISS Reshetnev behalf.” Its creation cost to the state budget of Ukraine at $ 254 million.