The director of the Voronezh KB “Khimavtomatika” resigned – a REGNUM

->

Voronezh, June 20, 2015, 18:31 – REGNUM Vladimir Rachuk sacked Director General – General Designer of Voronezh JSC “CB” Khimavtomatika ». Told reporters at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, the head of Roscosmos Igor Komarov today, June 20.

«On” Proton “, we said that it is a constructive defect associated with the material, and a constructive part – mounting the rotor shaft turbopump unit of the third stage. We are working on correcting this defect. This is due to operation of the Voronezh Chemical Automatics Design Bureau. There has been a change – left office director Vladimir KBKhA Rachuk “- quoted by Tass Komarova.

The incident with the rocket” Proton “occurred May 16 – it failed to launch a Mexican telecommunications satellite” MekSat-1 ” . The Commission concluded that the cause of abnormal termination of the flight rocket “Proton-M” was the “failure of the steering motor third stage due to increased vibronagruzok caused by the increase in the imbalance of the rotor turbopump unit (TPU), associated with the degradation of the properties of its material under high temperatures, and the imperfection of the system balancing. Failure is constructive ».

Let’s add, as previously reported IA REGNUM , at the end of February it became known that a criminal case against the chief designer – General Director of JSC” Chemical Automatics Design Bureau ” Vladimir Rachuk, under Art. 201 of the Criminal Code “Abuse of authority”. According to investigators, in 2003, land, real estate and equipment shop industrial gas KBKhA was leased LLC “Cryoservice.” This firm has also been translated and staff. The amount of lease payments was significantly understated, resulting gases produced by the equipment KBKhA, now bought at an inflated price. Damage caused KBKhA reportedly estimated at 80 million rubles. However, the Sovietsky district court recognized institution of prosecution illegal.

Meanwhile, authorities Rachuk as CEO KBKhA expired on April 30, the board had to decide on the extension or non-renewal of the contract.

Voronezh JSC “Chemical Automatics Design Bureau” (JSC KBKhA) is among the world leaders in the development of liquid rocket engines. It is a party to all domestic manned space exploration programs. The company provides a full cycle of liquid rocket engines (LRE) – design, manufacturing, testing and delivery of freight engines for missiles defense, scientific and economic purposes. Among the developments KBKhA – engines for carrier rockets “Soyuz-2″, “Angara”; oxygen-hydrogen engines boosters; oxygen-methane engines for advanced carrier rockets.

Rachuk Vladimir was born in 1936, works on KBKhA 1964. Participated in the creation of Europe’s first nuclear rocket engine, he oversaw the creation of the first Soviet powerful oxygen-hydrogen rocket engine for the space-rocket system “Energiya-Buran”. State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation Prize, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Honored constructor of Russia, academician of the Academy of Cosmonautics. Tsiolkovsky, the Russian Engineering Academy, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the International Academy of Astronautics, an honorary citizen of the city of Voronezh. KBKhA led since 1993.

If you notice a mistake in the text, select it and press Ctrl + Enter, to send information to the editor.