The failure of the second mission from the Vostochny launch pad could be due to a trajectory programming error. The upper stage of the rocket sent the satellites back into the atmosphere.
The second launch from the Russian cosmodrome Vostochny ended in a failure of the mission. While the Soyuz rocket took off as planned, the launcher was unable to place its main payload, the Russian Meteor-M 2-1 meteorological satellite, in the target orbit, as well as a satellite. Earth observation and seventeen small satellites.
This failure is particularly disturbing as the Vostochny cosmodrome in south-eastern Siberia is very recent and is intended to replace the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It must restore its credibility to missions of the Russian space program damaged by failures in recent years ... fortunately not for manned flights.
During the November 28 failure, the Fregat upper stage sent the satellites on a suborbital trajectory causing them to be consumed in the atmosphere. According to Russian Space Web, there would have been a programming error in the trajectory.
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In particular, the Fregat flight control system would not have had the right parameters for the launch of a mission from the new Vostochny cosmodrome, but for a launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
A commission will have to report the results of this incident by mid-December. The third launch of Vostochny's cosmodrome's history must theoretically take place before the end of this year.
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