Named by the date of launch a Russian weather satellite on the Ukrainian rocket

Russian hydrometeorological spacecraft "Electro-L No. 2, which is scheduled to launch in June or July, will be launched in October With the help of a rocket" Zenit ", gathered at the Ukrainian enterprise " Yuzhmash ", said a source in the space industry.
"The delay is due To the unwillingness of a number of systems of the spacecraft," said the source, " Interfax ".
Originally it was planned that the weather satellite will go into orbit in January-February. Then the launch date was moved to June or July because of the unwillingness, but in this meet a deadline did not work, he said. The Elektro-L No. 2 is expected to launch With the help of a rocket "Zenit" Ukrainian production. In connection With the events in Ukraine, relations With partners from this place difficult, anyway, two rockets Zenit have already been delivered and are in Baikonur. One is designed For "Electro-L No. 2, and the second For the space Observatory" Spektr-RG ". In preparation for this starts to come to the group of experts " Yuzhmash ". Remember, April 30, Roscosmos announced plans to launch three Russian-Ukrainian launch in 2016-2018.. According to the document, in 2017 From the Baikonur cosmodrome is expected to spend the last launch of the carrier rocket " Zenit ", which put into orbit a scientific instrument " Spektr-RG ". Thus the subsequent device in the series "Spectrum -" Spectrum-UV "- obliged to go to space using the Russian " Proton ". In addition, in 2016 and 2018 Roscosmos plans to spend From Plesetsk two rockets " Roar ". Each of them will be sent into space on 3 satellite system " Messenger ". From 2019 capacity and replenishment groups "Messenger" will be carried out using light missiles " Angara-1. 2 ". Before it was announced about the decision of the Russian space Agency to abandon the Russian-Ukrainian media "Zenit" in favor of " Angara ". Even in the last month of summer last year, the Ukrainian head Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree prohibiting the export to Russia of military and dual-use except for space technology, which is used For research and use of outer space for good purposes in the framework of international space projects. In the early winter of last year, the Russian experts said that the refusal to cooperate With Russia in the military-industrial complex almost completely deprive Kiev of military industry. In June last year stated that from the cessation of military-technical cooperation With Russia, Ukraine will lose a lot more.


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