Emergency Commission to investigate the causes of the accident rocket “Proton-M” Getting Started – Kommersant

                             
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Meeting of the State Emergency Commission to investigate the causes of the accident rocket “Proton-M” with the Mexican satellite began in Roskosmos. This Tass source in the space industry. “Getting Started emergency committee,” – he said. According to him, the meeting will last about 2 hours. Earlier Tass reported that the deputy head of the State Commission can lead the Russian Federal Space Agency Alexander Ivanov.

«Proton-M” with the upper stage “Briz-M” and the spacecraft “MeksSat-1″ was launched 16 May from Baikonur at 08:47 MSK, the upper stage with the satellite had separated from the carrier at 08:57 MSK. A minute before, at an altitude of 161 km, there was an emergency situation. As a result, the head portion and the third stage did not have time to separate. They burn in the dense layers of the atmosphere over the Trans-Baikal Territory. According to preliminary data, there is an error in the steering motor third stage “Proton” – just like last year. The failure of the launch of “Proton-M” in May 2014 was associated with the destruction of the bearing in the steering engine turbopump unit.

Details of the accident with the “Proton-M”, read material “b”, “Fragments” Proton-M “were burned in the atmosphere».