Americans should modify control missiles to defend the destruction of the launch complexes at accidents during launch, said Last news academician of the Russian Academy of cosmonautics named after Tsiolkovsky, chief editor of the magazine " news of cosmonautics " Igor Marinin.

Booster Antares space truck Cygnus, which he had to deliver more than 2 tons of cargo to the ISS, exploded at the moment of launch at the Baikonur cosmodrome Wallops (USA). According to NASA, in the end, disaster lost equipment for scientific experiments, and spare parts for the station.

As told the head of the Department, in the 80-ies when launching From Baikonur rocket Ukrainian production " Zenith " has been a similar accident, the launch complex has been destruction, which until now could not recover.

" Since then we have all the rockets entered the control system maneuver withdrawal is when the rocket has just risen above the starting complex, but swinging a little to the side and walks away. That is, if she all of a sudden the engine will shut down, it will fall not on the starting complex, and next. Americans such experience did not have, they have not actually happened. Based on the surveys, which were, Antares rocket fell exactly on the complex. So they got to modify the control system so that this no longer happened, " said Marinin.

After the disaster policy specialist in the field of space, distinguished University Professor George capital of the United States John Logsdon suggested that the accident could be caused by problems in the engine. However, the Commissioner of the manufacturer told me that the engines of the rocket Antares passed all the testing stage, and among them the Russian Federation, any issues identified did not happen. Reviews Marinina, PE at the start was due to modification of Americans to the Soviet engine.

in the United States created a special Commission, which will disclose details of and reasons for the explosion of the rocket. The causes of the events will be discussed on November 4 meeting of the heads of space agencies, and among them the Russian Federation and the United States.

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