Rogozin will be fired for "Progress"

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin held the White house for a special meeting, which caused all responsible for the implementation of the space program. On the agenda was the question about the reasons for the crash of a Russian ship "Progress M-27M".

According to Rogozin, after obtaining definitive conclusions about the causes of the disaster will be followed by an immediate staffing solutions.

"It is necessary to operate the state Commission, experts weighed it all. In-2, the Collegium of the military industrial complex and the scientific-technical Council - I also was attracted to was a 2nd opinion on our side. And only after that possible personnel decisions", - said Rogozin.

With all of this, Deputy Prime Minister promised that the crash of the spaceship "Progress" will not affect the delivery of astronauts to the ISS. But, Rogozin considers strange versions the lack of circumstances of accident. "There are no significant versions no, it's very surprising," he was quoted by TASS.

In turn, the 1st Deputy of the head of Roscosmos and the Chairman of the state Commission for testing Alexander Ivanov noted that the disaster of "Progress" can be associated with separation of spacecraft and rockets. "The premise could become an emergency situation, connected with the separation of the spacecraft and launch vehicle. Created the state Commission", - he reported.

"One thing is clear: an emergency situation with the "Progress" happened at the moment of separation of spacecraft and rockets", - said the representative of Roscosmos. According to Ivanov, the state Commission must find the cause of the accident until may 13. "According to regulations, on may 26, appointed manned launch. The state Commission on preparation for this launch is scheduled for may 13. Until 13 may, we should work on finding the cause of the accident "Progress" to complete, to make a final, informed and calm decision," - said Ivanov.

Recall that a cargo vehicle "Progress M-27M" was launched on April 28 from the Baikonur cosmodrome with the help of the carrier rocket "Soyuz-2.1 a". It was assumed that after 6 hours, it will dock with the International space station, but after starting the MCC specialists are unable to receive telemetry information from the Board of "Progress". In addition, the ship flew into a higher orbit than planned: the increase amounted to 30 km "Progress" began uncontrollable spin, and with him ceased to receive information.

Experts tried to establish communication with the ship, but failed. In the end had to admit that "Progress", which was supposed to deliver to ISS products, oxygen and equipment lost. In the mission control Center confirmed that the issue of truck dock with the ISS is not worth it. The important thing now is to ensure that it more or less manageable and safe mixing of orbit".

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