The case of technology

The head of Roscosmos in an interview with the program "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin ”on the Russia 1 channel explained its point of view about the causes of failures when launching missiles.

“Technique is still a technique. And sooner or later she fails. You know that there is not a single model of technology that has one hundred percent reliability. The coefficient of reliability of the technique is, say, 99 and behind the comma of some other interest there. But still, these percentages are those cases that soon or later happen, ”he said.

Rogozin explained that the history of the Union missile launches did not do without failures and accidents, but they occurred infrequently. According to the head of Roscosmos, the number of emergency situations is within acceptable limits.

“Sooner or later it could have happened. The human factor or a failure of technology, but, one way or another, it happened. Another thing is that the unique manned ship "Soyuz-MS" saved the crew. On the area where the salvation has never happened, ”he emphasized, noting that in such situations the astronauts died.

Dmitry Rogozin emphasized that the task was completed because the crew was saved.

“As for the analysis of flights, the commission worked, found the reasons, completely eliminated them, introduced additional fierce control,” he added.

The head of Roscosmos said that after the incident a video control was introduced for all the elements of the assembly of the rocket. After the loud accident of the Union, four control launches of the same rocket were carried out, and the fifth with a manned ship. Everything went successfully, without incidents and failures, so, according to the head of the space department, "the station's viability was restored." Dmitry Rogozin also said that it was Russian spacecraft that deliver crew members to the International Space Station.

Recall that in October 2018, when starting the manned Ship, Soyuz, an emergency occurred in the second minute of the flight, the crew had to make an emergency landing in Kazakhstan, after which the launch of missiles of this type were suspended. The incident has become the first accident with the Union over the past 35 years. The audit of the State Commission concluded that the cause of the incident was a faulty sensor, due to which one of the side blocks of the first stage was separated by the second stage, changing the flight direction, which caused the emergency salvation system of the crew.

In January of this year, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting on the development of the state corporation, urging its head of Dmitry Rogozin “to end with a search in the rocket and space industry”, since “this is striking”.

“Stop chatting about where we will fly in 30, we need to work, talk less and do more,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Then it became known that Roscosmos intends to spend 450 million rubles in control of the quality of the assembly of space technology. The purchase was carried out as part of the “Federal Space Program of Russia for 2016–2025”.

It is also worth recalling that in November 2018, the Rogozin department published a report on the results of work in 2017, and the document noted “insufficient qualifications and lack of staff motivation to prevent (prevent) cases of inconsistencies (including refusal) during the operation of space technology” and “low efficiency of the quality control system for supplied materials and components”.

We add that in an interview with Russia 1, Dmitry Rogozin also spoke about the partnership program with NASA. According to him, the United States is “extremely interested” in creating a Russian transport system for delivery to the Moon, which should become an alternative to American products, because Their technique can fail, "which happened and happens," as well as "led to big victims."

Recall that last year, Roscosmos and NASA signed a memorandum of cooperation in the creation of the The Deep Space Gateway International Military Station (Far Space Gate).

“Despite the fact that DSG will be much smaller than the ISS, and it is unlikely to be inhabited, the lunar station will provide scientists with no less opportunities than the earthly orbital platform. As scientists told us, it can rotate in a very interesting orbit, which will allow either robots on the moon or make expeditions to its surface, ”says Space.com Portal, leading scientist director of the NASA headquarters of NASA, as saying.

Representatives of two space corporations will discuss joint plans at a personal meeting, the official representative of Roscosmos Vladimir Ustimenko told RIA Novosti .

“An invitation to the NASA administrator Jim Brandenstein to come to Russia for further negotiations was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin during a television conference. The intention of the American