Managers of space industry will not be punished for the accident “Progress” – Vedomosti

Roscosmos admitted the loss of the cargo ship “Progress M-27M” launched on Tuesday. “One thing is clear – an emergency situation with the” progress “has occurred at the time of separation [third stage] rocket” Soyuz-2.1a “and the ship,” – he said at a special briefing on Wednesday, the first deputy head of the Federal Space Agency Anatoly Ivanov. After this emergency situation the ship was damaged, making it impossible to dock with the International Space Station (ISS). Over establish the exact causes of the accident will be working committee, the conclusion of which must be received by 13 May, when will decide on the start of the ISS on May 26 manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA” (it starts with another modification of the “Union” – rocket “Soyuz-UV” ).

The cost of producing ships and missiles with the launch, according to the head of Roskosmos Igor Komarov, was 2.589 million rubles., Including the rocket itself with a fairing and ship – 1.986 billion rubles., The last the amount he was insured. Previous (and the first in the history of this type of ships) the loss of the space truck occurred because of rocket failure in August 2011, and the launch of “Progress M-12M” was not insured, which put the blame then leadership of the Russian Space Agency.

Igor Komarov The head of the Russian Space Agency

A further flight of the ship and its docking with the ISS is not possible. & Lt; … & gt; Without removing the fault and no one else shifting should determine the true cause.

According to the Russian Federal Space Agency, decayed and combustion in an atmosphere of pre-emergency ship is expected on May 5-7. In total this year planned to launch to the ISS four “progress” (one launched in March), but the accident left two launch will likely postponed to a later date, said Ivanov. According to him, a threat to the crew of the ISS in connection with the undelivered cargo him missing.

According to the person in the government, this failure will not affect the position of the current leadership of the space industry and its supervisors in the government. Systemic problems have long been observed and Astronautics everyone understands that they are not quickly solved, the new team led by the former president of “AvtoVAZ” Komarov set last year just for this, the official recalled. According to him, the head of the Russian Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov, was filmed in 2011, including a series of failed launches (including previous bad start “progress”), and his successor Vladimir Popovkin and Oleg Ostapenko resigned is due to a failure starts, which happened and during guidance. Dismiss and business leaders for the most egregious of the accident due to negligence at work, but now it will not and that, although it is necessary to await the outcome of the investigation, said the source “Vedomosti”. The new team at Roscosmos came recently to reform the industry, the purpose of which is to avoid such unpleasant stories, so some high-profile resignation today illogical agree corresponding member of the Academy of Astronautics Andrew, son of John.