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April 27 at 5:01 Moscow time, the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with three domestic satellites should have started, but it worked automation and canceled the scheduled launch. Exactly one day postponed launch rocket.
The next day, at the same time, at five in the morning and one a minute in Moscow, a rocket was launched from the cosmodrome East, which suffered from the new Russian spaceport spaceships “Aist-2D”, “Lomonosov” and “SamSat-218”.
Why delayed rocket launch
As specified by the official representative of the Russian space Igor Burenkov Corporation, the launch was delayed by technical reasons, because a minute and a half before the launch of the rocket automatic canceled it. This is quite normal, such cases occur in almost all countries when launching space rockets. This only confirms that the automation is working properly, and she noticed some minor malfunctions that followed eliminate before the start, which is what the experts are doing now.
The reason for the cancellation of the first launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket from the cosmodrome East has become a problem with drainage valves.
Reserve day – April 28, Burenkov emphasized, was planned in advance, as the specialists of the spaceport are fine were aware that the first launch can present some surprises. In this situation, the main thing is not that it is postponed launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle, more importantly another: both the rocket itself and the three satellites that it should launch into space have remained intact and unscathed.
The day before the launch
Before this, in general, a loud and significant event for Russian journalists, right on the territory of the cosmodrome, met with director of the branch of the corporation “Roscosmos” Konstantin Chmarov and asked him to tell in a nutshell about the “East”.
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The Vostochny spaceport, said Konstantin Vasilievich, will allow Russia pursue an independent space policy, and Amur the base region for it was not chosen randomly. One side, this is the most convenient place in the country for launching rockets, on the other – such an object of national importance will give an additional impetus the development of this region, which has great potential. For example, the Amur Region produces much more electricity. more than it consumes, it has a well-developed transport infrastructure, and so on.
K. Chmarov also spoke about why the launch complex was nevertheless, it was made under the Soyuz rocket, and not Rus-M, what changes occurred in the spaceport construction project since 2007, which there were major difficulties in the construction of this facility.
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According to experts, he said, the upgraded version Soyuz-2 is much more reliable and well-developed compared to other rocket launchers. During the construction of the “East”, of course the necessary adjustments to the original project, for example, due to the emerging sanctions against Russia with side of the West, which led to import substitution, change staged construction of individual spaceport facilities. Not done of course, and without certain difficulties and failures, but they are in mainly related to import substitution, as well as some organizational issues that arose between by the customer, designer, builders and contractors. Others and, in particular, there were no serious problems.
By the way, at the beginning of the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome no they didn’t have a governing structure; all this was subordinate to Roskosmos directly or to the government of the Amur region. It was a little later created the Cosmodrome Directorate, then TsENKI, then a branch Roscosmos state corporation, which was headed by Konstantin Vasilyevich Chmarov.
How to build the Vostochny spaceport
See also a documentary about who built it and how. civilian spaceport “East”, who took direct participation in the creation of future Russian space exploration.
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