Baikonur postponed launch of the rocket, because of what may be to delay the launch of the East – IA Amur.info

Start carrier rocket “Soyuz 2.1b” with the satellite moved – triggered an automatic engine shutdown system. According to Tass, the satellite launch “Resurs-P» №3 moved to a backup date – March 13. If it turns out that the cause of the problem lies in the rocket engines, it is possible that it could affect the date of the first launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region.

«For technical reasons, the carrier rocket launch of” Soyuz-2.1b ” spacecraft remote sensing “Resurs-P” number 3 is transferred to the backup date – March 13, 2016 at 21:56 Moscow time, “- the press service of” Roscosmos “. According to “Roscosmos”, the transfer will not affect the launch schedule of regular launches of spacecraft in March this year. “Changes in the schedule of other launches planned in March, is not planned”, – the press-service. Nearest launch rocket “Soyuz” in the form of modification of “Soyuz-FG” is scheduled for 19 March. The missile will have to send to the ISS manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-20M” with the next crew.

According to Tass source in the space industry, automatic shutdown of engines at “Soyuz-2.1b” carrier rocket launch occurred before ignition. “Automation has worked before the ignition is switched on, that is the beginning of rocket fuel combustion process,” – said the agency interlocutor. However, according to a source in the space industry, an emergency situation at the Baikonur Cosmodrome with the carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” may affect the launch date of the next manned mission to the ISS on a rocket “Soyuz-FG” and first start since Vostochny cosmodrome rocket booster “Soyuz-2.1a».

«if the cause of the interrupt trigger operation was a problem with the first stage engines, the carrier rocket will have to return to the factory and disassembled. Given that the first stage is the engine RD-107, it can affect the start-up rocket “Soyuz-FG” on March 19 and start “Soyuz-2.1a” from the East “, – he said. “If the cause of the engine, neither of which can not be starting soon speech”, – he said, referring to the rocket launch “Soyuz-2.1b” spacecraft “Resurs-P”. In this case, to start the machine will need either to touch a rocket, postponing the launch of the device for several months, or taken from stockpiles other similar missile, the source said.

Allegedly, April 25th from the cosmodrome Vostochny should be Implemented the first launch of the rocket ” Soyuz-2.1a ».

« Resurs-p »№ 3, weighing nearly 6 tons had to replenish constellation of civilian satellites c detailed level of resolution. Earlier spacecraft “Resurs-DK” (June 2006) have been successfully put into orbit, “Resource-P” number 1 (June 2013) and “Resource-P” number 2 (December 2014). The manufacturer of the third unit of this series is the space rocket center “Progress” working in Samara.

The information from the spacecraft “Resurs-P” is used for the benefit of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, as well as for monitoring of emergency areas situations. In addition, these data are utilized in the preparation and updating of maps, for the control of environmental pollution, the search for oil and other mineral deposits. On the basis of hyperspectral satellite imagery can determine the maturity of wheat, microbial activity in the reservoir, the degree of soil salinity.