Officially: the first start from East failed due to the wrong cable

The State Commission for Investigation of the Cause of the Failure of the First Launch of the Soyuz 2.1a Rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome promptly identified the problem, due to which the launch had to be postponed from 27 to 28 April. As expected, the reason was incorrectly made cable.

“This situation was modeled at NPO Avtomatika Academician Semikhatov (NPOA), they saw it with their own eyes and approved the results, ” a source in the leadership of the Roscosmos state corporation told Izvestia. “The cable used in the rocket was not manufactured according to the design documentation and turned out to be without several necessary jumpers.”

The source added that the main responsibility will be borne by the leadership of Ekaterinburg NPOA, as well as those who were responsible for completing the test methodology of the ground control system at the spaceport.

In total, the results of the first launch revealed more than 20 comments .

The transfer for one day is quite a regular situation, it happens all the time and everywhere. Worse, the launch preparation schedule was disrupted before: the first launch from Vostochny was originally scheduled for 2015, and then postponed for 2016.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the government's aerospace and defense industries, was reprimanded , the head of Roscosmos Igor Komarov was severely reprimanded, and the head of the NPO Avtomatika, Leonid Shalimov, a resolution on incomplete compliance.

"The low quality of the components brings the Russian spacecraft surprisingly often," writes Izvestia. “The GLONASS satellites failed due to poorly tested parts on Earth. Last year turned out to be fruitful for space accidents with Russian-made equipment: in April, the launch of the Progress spacecraft with cargo for the ISS ended unsuccessfully in May, the Proton unsuccessfully launched with the Mexican telecommunications device in May. Also in 2015, foreign satellites of Russian origin refused to be in orbit: EgyptSat 2 - in April and AMOS 5 - in November. In early December, the Space Forces lost the Canopus ST satellite at launch. Also last year, the Condor-E military spacecraft crashed in orbit. As a result, according to the statistics of accidents in space