Abolition of the launch of “Union” explained the failure in the engine control system – RBC

« Soyuz-2.1a “Removal of the rocket to the launch facility Baikonur East. April 23, 2016

Photo: Press service of the Federal Space Agency “Roskosmos” / TASS

Sources in rocket space industry have called a possible cause of the abolition of the launch “Union-2.1a” from the cosmodrome East. Automation can detect a failure in the system motor control

As told Tass source in the space industry, decoding the telemetry indicates that the equipment before the start of the identified failure in one of the control systems of devices responsible for switching on and off motors , separation stages, the direction of flight. According to the source, is now “experts versed in the telemetry to identify a specific node to its” ping “and see if it was a false triggering or in fact some sort of device is out of order.” If the necessary spare parts will not, then, “can transfer” for the long term, he said.

A similar version of the results and “RIA Novosti”. According to the source in the industry, with a tart first carrier rocket with the new Russian spaceport could be shifted automatics due to a malfunction in the control system boosters “, 2.1a of the Union.” “We consider several versions of the start of the transfer, of which one – the failure of the control system is responsible for starting the main engines. But this is one of the pre-release versions, telemetry is not yet fully deciphered, “- said the source,” RIA Novosti

News »Earlier Wednesday, a source of” RIA Novosti “admitted that the launch of the” Union “. transferred on 27 April to the backup date can not be held, and 28 of April. According to the source, to postpone the start-up for an indefinite period will indicate the decision to drain the fuel from the launch vehicle. According to the source, until fuel is drained, “Union” is on the grid.

The source of “Interfax” notes that while the state commission did not approve the April 28 date of launch of the carrier rocket.

on the night of April 27, at a newly built space center in the Amur region East it was to be held the first launch, but a few minutes before the start, he was moved to a backup date – 28 April. “Roskosmos” said that the rebound missile launch gave automatics.

The official representative of “Roscosmos” Igor Bourenkov morning, said Wednesday in an interview with “Kommersant-FM», that the cancellation of the first launch from Russia’s new Vostochny cosmodrome is not an emergency situation, and technical failure.

«Telemetry testified that there are problems at the carrier rocket. Now we will check and what. I believe that everything will be fine. Moreover, all experts emphasized that this is not an emergency, but simply a technical failure “, – said Bourenkov

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