The reason for the removal of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from the launch pad of the Plesetsk cosmodrome is indicated

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It became known about the cancellation of the first space launch scheduled for 2020 in Russia. On January 24, the launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle was to take place. It was planned that this missile was launched into the calculated orbit of the military satellite "Meridian-M".

The launch was supposed to take place from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, but they decided to postpone it to a later date.



The press reports on the reasons for this decision by representatives of the space industry. According to the latest information, the rocket even had to be removed from the launch pad and sent to the assembly and testing complex. The reason is that malfunctions were detected in the electrical equipment of the Soyuz. This was reported by TASS news agency with reference to industry sources.

The report said that problems with electrical equipment were identified after installing the rocket on the launch pad and before starting the refueling process.

It was previously noted that the problem may be related to the upper stage or even to the launch complex of the Plesetsk launch site. However, these assumptions have not yet been confirmed.

Meridian-M is a satellite that should be put into low Earth orbit in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry. Previously, such satellites have already been put into orbit. Their main purpose is navigation support for ships and ice reconnaissance aircraft throughout the Northern Sea Route.
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    1. +23
      26 January 2020 10: 28
      Everything is clear, that nothing is clear about the specific reason, the title does not correspond to the content. But it is certainly good that the problem was discovered on the "table".
      1. -4
        26 January 2020 10: 32
        It's a shame for the plan! recourse
        1. +24
          26 January 2020 10: 36
          The plan will not go anywhere, the launch is shifted to the right for a couple of weeks, and then knock on wood, everything will continue as usual. These are working moments, without them, too, nowhere ... The main thing is that no one "drives" and does not interfere with calm work.
          1. 0
            26 January 2020 11: 01
            I am sure that soon we will drink to all VO for the successful launch of this satellite into orbit. Someone is white, some is red, and some is green ... a seagull. smile drinks
            1. +4
              26 January 2020 11: 33
              The change of government affected the transfer of launch)))

              Seriously, it’s better to control an electrician. Many failures of astronautics in recent years are associated with poor-quality acceptance.
              1. +13
                26 January 2020 11: 39
                Much is due to the average drop in the technical level of specialists. And here it is not a question of the Unified State Examination, but, first of all, the banal size of the salary, the gap in the salary of a techie with the link of administration is not decently large. With acceptance just everything is more or less in order. It’s just technically impossible to double-check everything at the exit control.
                1. +3
                  26 January 2020 14: 13
                  Well, don’t throw it on sn, this is nonsense. I work with a colleague, in the same pricing policy, but he has an attitude, the boss gets more, so let him answer, but I work so that I would not be ashamed of the name. We have one salary, but the bonuses in terms of bonuses and bonuses are completely different. At the beginning of December, at the table with little white and meat, it was beaten that if he worked in the same mode as me, he would get the same buns, he didn’t believe ... in vain, I got buns by argument) for that since January , an engineer, as a substitute) works, as required. So, what matters here is not the RFP, but the understanding and attitude towards the work being done.
                  1. +3
                    26 January 2020 15: 53
                    Once I sent 2 welders and 1 installer to the factory, they are on a paycheck: - an installer 80, an electric welder 000 rubles a month, this team eliminated the accident in two days for 110 working hours. factory welders and locksmiths told them that they would not have done in less than a month! After I talked with a factory electrician who connected the equipment, he had a salary of 000 rubles a month, when I asked how he works for such a salary, but replied that he was not only doing as badly as possible, but also trying to do a little harm!
                    So it’s NOT Nonsense
                    In the developed countries of the world, people work well for a good salary, but we make rockets, block the Yenisei, and ....
        2. 0
          26 January 2020 13: 17
          Measure seven times, cut one!
      2. +10
        26 January 2020 10: 36
        There is no rush here .... It's a serious matter, it's better to double-check it more than once - than to "maybe
        1. +5
          26 January 2020 10: 39
          Qualitative analysis to determine the causes - first of all.
          1. +23
            26 January 2020 10: 59
            There are only two faults in electricity:
            The lack of contact, where it is needed and the presence of where it is not needed. Yes
            1. +3
              26 January 2020 11: 33
              Sensor failure (measuring instrument) or incorrect readings, algorithm failure. There can be a lot of things. But in most cases, exactly what you wrote about.
              1. +1
                26 January 2020 13: 06
                Maxim, the word "incorrect" is written together.
                With your post above, you touched upon the "fall of the average
                technical
                level ".

                The problem appears to be much wider.
                1. +3
                  26 January 2020 14: 19
                  In Russian spelling, both spellings of the words both “incorrectly” and “not correct” are possible.

                  it all depends on the context.
                  But I do not deny that there have always been problems with the Russian ..
              2. 0
                26 January 2020 13: 45
                Electrics and electronics are different. The quote about contact refers to an electrician.
            2. 0
              26 January 2020 14: 16
              As an electrical engineer, I agree, but as a programmer, I will add (I hope no offense). Where there should be zero, there is one, where there is one, there is zero). The rocket is still not only circuitry, but also software)
            3. -1
              26 January 2020 17: 41
              Quote: thinker
              The lack of contact, where it is needed and the presence of where it is not needed

              Well, it’s you in general according to the textbook. Speak easier, cliff and short circuit. lol
              1. +3
                26 January 2020 18: 02
                Open circuit or short circuit - yes, the main malfunctions. But there is a worse thing - a "floating" fault, ie. which does not always appear. For example, do not drink. When the apparatus is moved, it can finish and work for a while, but it will appear at the most inopportune moment. Or insulation breakdown at peak loads. Bumped into them at work - elimination takes much longer than an obvious malfunction. Yes
                R'RёS,R ° F "RёR№ hi
                1. 0
                  26 January 2020 18: 12
                  Quote: Svarog51
                  But there is a worse thing - a "floating" fault
                  Well, actually, in the first specialty, I am an electronic engineer, in general, somehow in the know.
                  Sergei hi
                  1. +1
                    26 January 2020 19: 29
                    Colleague, my respect. hi I am an electrical engineer. EPiAPU. Late for Promelectronics get. In the future service would be more useful, communication - it is more to electronics than to electromechanics. These are the vicissitudes of fate. I don’t complain, but ... What you have lived, you won’t return. May it be so.
            4. 0
              27 January 2020 22: 44
              the main thing is to know in advance where it is needed, and where it will wait.
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      1. +3
        26 January 2020 10: 34
        Add and gouging. But the instrumentation system did not disappoint.
      2. +3
        26 January 2020 11: 02
        Quote: KUBA
        Saboteurs and saboteurs are not asleep .. I'm sure of that already!
        Vitaly, why did you pick your wiring? bully
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          1. +4
            26 January 2020 11: 12
            Yeah, give you the authority, leave half of the country orphans! drinks
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    3. +5
      26 January 2020 10: 39
      It is better to postpone the launch, even several times, to double-check everything and make it successfully than ...
      Well done.
    4. +2
      26 January 2020 10: 45
      It would be much more offensive to lose a satellite. Whoever needs to catch Lyuli, without this in any way ... But there is great confidence that the satellite will take its place in orbit and complete the task ...
    5. +8
      26 January 2020 10: 47
      Well, the first two months there will traditionally be few launches and probably even leaving the top three. Roscosmos usually expands in the second half of the year.

      Musk, meanwhile, is launching a second pack of Starlink tomorrow. After 10-14 days, the third.

      ESA in the Atlas carries SolarOrbiter in early February - the first scientific mission of this year. For 10 years.


      In February, the Chinese launch a new (commercial from ExPace) 1,5t rocket of the useful Kuaizhou 11. In the background there is a penny, which flew 5 times in 2019 and once after the new year, in the long-range 1,5t rocket is 11 models.


      Also, the first flight of a large Astra (private traders from the USA, in 2018 launched such a reduced prototype on a suborbital, to test the concept) - at first they will be 100 kg low, then they will quickly reach 225 kg.


      Well, LauncherOne is about to fly.
      1. -3
        26 January 2020 11: 06
        Quote: donavi49
        ESA on Atlas Lucky SolarOrbiter in early February
        Will you be lucky? He will live, see ...
        1. +7
          26 January 2020 11: 55
          Why is it no luck? Guaranteed lucky. That is, there are chances that it will explode / cannot decompose and fulfill the mission after the withdrawal. But what is not lucky is no chance. The device has already passed the entire cycle of pre-flight testing. The rocket has already been pumped out and also passed all the tests at this stage. Will be delivered soon. February 6th start. Possible transfers, but minor.

      2. -2
        26 January 2020 12: 51
        Quote: donavi49
        Well, the first two months there will traditionally be few launches and probably even leaving the top three.


        This February we have 4 launches of ILV planned. laughing
      3. 0
        26 January 2020 13: 31
        Musk, meanwhile, is launching a second pack of Starlink tomorrow. After 10-14 days, the third.

        When is there a manned launch? )))
        1. dSK
          0
          26 January 2020 13: 56
          The Chinese made transparent plastic head fairing?
          NASA and Boeing, the main contractor of the SLS project, plan to conduct final tests this summer, and say that after it the rocket can go to Cape Canaveral in Florida, that is, to the Kennedy Space Center, tentatively, from July to October 2020.
          An American superheavy launch vehicle developed by NASA for manned expeditions beyond Earth orbit. First unmanned mission launch "Artemis-1" scheduled for mid-2020, and the first manned "Artemis-2" - in 2023
        2. 0
          26 January 2020 16: 12
          God be with him, with the launch .. Mask over the past month has become richer by a half billion dollars ..)) What difference does it fly or not? )))
      4. 0
        27 January 2020 22: 49
        They pollute space with garbage articles, and soon there will be "emergency" raids.
    6. -2
      26 January 2020 10: 47
      When drilling a random through hole in the ship's skin, the wiring was inadvertently hit)))
      1. +2
        26 January 2020 10: 56
        And for this, the assembly technologist already needs to tap on the pumpkin.
        1. +3
          26 January 2020 11: 00
          Rogozin needs to be pounded, but he is in the favorites of the supreme ...
          So put in the corner an ordinary guy with a drill)
          1. +4
            26 January 2020 11: 26
            Rogozin does not drill holes and does not control the work of locksmiths, but for the fact that gouging in Roskosmos should be tapped. And you don’t need to protect ordinary guys, they’ll make a hole in the wrong place, then they will screw the sensor upside down. All are good. But in general, this is Roscosmos.
      2. +1
        26 January 2020 11: 11
        Quote: nm76
        When drilling a random through hole in a ship's skin

        You immediately sign that this is such a joke, otherwise people are already ready for a new revolution out of righteous anger laughing
        1. +2
          26 January 2020 11: 13
          So I marked my joke with brackets at the end)))
          1. 0
            26 January 2020 11: 16
            Quote: nm76
            So I designated

            The reaction of comrade Yuri shows that not everyone reads the brackets ... laughing
            1. +4
              26 January 2020 11: 19
              Here are some not only brackets, they don’t read at all ...
              As they say, just to express their point of view)))
              1. 0
                26 January 2020 11: 42
                Quote: nm76
                Here are some not only brackets,

                Well, not without it ... Nobody is perfect. wink
                1. 0
                  26 January 2020 17: 30
                  After the previous case with an "unidentified flying hole" in the casing, no one will perceive the possibility of another as an unconditional joke, no matter how many brackets you put at the end.
    7. -1
      26 January 2020 10: 55
      For such things, unfortunate employees must be dismissed mercilessly so that they don’t take anywhere except the janitor. And why does the OTK raven catch?
    8. +6
      26 January 2020 11: 02
      The launch of the Starlink-3 mission is tentatively scheduled for January 27 at 17:49 GMT (14:49 UTC / 09: 49 am EST) from the SLC-40 launch pad in Florida
      Probability of favorable weather at the time of launch: 40%. The wind in the upper atmosphere is strong.
      They promise that on January 28 the conditions for the launch will be better.
      In this launch, it is planned to use the 1st stage of the Falcon 9 B1051.3 (3rd flight).
      The return of the 1st stage is planned for the OCISLY floating platform.
      Go Ms. Fairing Ships Tree and Go Ms. Chief will again try to catch both fairing wings
    9. +4
      26 January 2020 11: 04
      The main problem of the industry is Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin.


      Dmitry Rogozin is a very intelligent and educated person. He graduated from journal faculty. Moscow State University, defended his doctoral dissertation in philosophy .... But !!! And here Roskosmos !!!!
      And what do you think?!...
      1. +3
        26 January 2020 11: 16
        Because the main thing in the leader is loyalty to the first person, personal devotion, willingness to participate in shadow schemes. And leave the expertise, organizational power, professional enthusiasm and focus on results to someone else.
        I am sure that in Roskosmos there are a lot of excellent professionals, but they are strangled by the set effective managers.
      2. -7
        26 January 2020 11: 48
        And Rogozin does not claim to be the designer’s laurels. He is a manager. In the end, under the USSR, the missile program was also led by non-specialized specialists.
      3. +4
        26 January 2020 12: 11
        The main problem is the industry, which is being reformed towards projecting, and not in real renewal. And this is even openly said at the highest level - by Medvedev at the time of the Prime Minister, and Borisov, who seems to have retained his post.

        James Frederick Bridenstine - has a tower master of business administration, worked as an administrator in the museum and due to politics became the head of NASA.

        The Chinese head of the agency graduated from the University of Physics - has a technical education, and then a business. Moreover, business is a priority. And yes, do you see a lot of Mr. Zhang Kejian?


        And yes, this manager of the communist school is actively promoting various startups, commercial private companies. China immediately beyond the United States, on the commercialization of space. So that state corporations do not decompose, do not relax, and also run in step with progress.
        1. -6
          26 January 2020 13: 40
          The main problem is the industry, which is being reformed towards projecting, and not in real renewal.

          Yes, no problem - chemical engines for rockets are a dead end. It's like making a steam engine airplane.
          Roscosmos has long been engaged in a different type of engine - but there is no breakthrough yet.
          And the West only now, after 60 years, after the first satellite, is beginning to actively develop chemical engines.
          Therefore, all that Musk and his followers swarm about there does not matter much - but for the Western self-PR, it matters.
    10. 0
      26 January 2020 11: 18
      SpaceX: The Crew Dragon ship separates from the Falcon 9 during tests that confirm the spacecraft’s ability to deliver astronauts to a safe place in case of an emergency during flight
      [media = https: //vk.com/video-41152133_456241696]
    11. +1
      26 January 2020 11: 34
      Professionals in Plisetsk worked. Keep it up and keep marriage in orbit!
    12. 0
      26 January 2020 11: 38
      Correctly better not to do at all than to do obviously bad.
    13. 0
      26 January 2020 12: 23
      They forgot to do something at the spaceport.

      It is known that "the life-giving cross makes". ©
    14. 0
      26 January 2020 13: 00
      that’s what it means where the military is watching!
    15. +1
      26 January 2020 13: 13
      In the meantime, preparations for the launch of the next Glonass-M # 60 spacecraft are continuing in Plesetsk, and the delivery of a new series of Glonass-K spacecraft is being prepared (left in the picture).



      The second batch of OneWeb "space Internet" satellites was recently delivered to the Baikonur cosmodrome for commercial launch on the Soyuz-2.1b rocket on February 7.



      Well, the launch of the Meridian-M is tentatively scheduled for February 9.
    16. +1
      26 January 2020 13: 32
      Dragon Tests
    17. -1
      26 January 2020 14: 18
      "shpien unscrewed the lock nut", and this is not funny ...
    18. +1
      26 January 2020 14: 23
      It’s better to check a hundred times than then to rake the consequences!
    19. +2
      26 January 2020 15: 02
      Parts of the Starship SN1 tank docked
      Note that for the first time a special design was used to move the tank lid and align parts when aligning
      We are waiting for the transportation of the tank and dough.
    20. +2
      26 January 2020 15: 14
      In 2020, the company intends to launch a batch of devices into orbit every 2 weeks.
      The Starlink system should provide Internet access to users all over the planet due to the deployment of a large number of small vehicles (weighing up to 500 kg) in near-earth orbit. It is assumed that the communication system everywhere, including inaccessible and sparsely populated areas, will provide broadband Internet access at a speed of 1 gigabit per second, which corresponds to the 5G standard. At the same time, the company estimates the launch into orbit and commissioning of 11 thousand satellites at $ 10 billion.
    21. +2
      26 January 2020 16: 13
      The reason is that malfunctions were detected in the electrical equipment of the Soyuz.
      It's bad that we had to postpone the launch and remove the launch vehicle from the start, but EXCELLENT that it was possible to detect the presence of a malfunction, and not to send this satellite we need to "reinforce" the "underwater satellite constellation"
    22. +1
      26 January 2020 18: 21
      Mind unattainable!
      If in the 80s, while having dinner in the buffet of the Tsentralnaya hotel (who remembers, this is opposite the headquarters of the Strategic Missile Forces), I told my colleagues that a defective Union would be brought from Saratov, then in the morning I would have talked with an office psychiatrist
      1. 0
        27 January 2020 03: 16
        Quote: Rusfaner
        that a defective Union will be brought from Saratov,


        Saratov? laughing
    23. -1
      27 January 2020 00: 11
      Quote: maxim947
      Much is due to the average drop in the technical level of specialists. And here it is not a question of the Unified State Examination, but, first of all, the banal size of the salary, the gap in the salary of a techie with the link of administration is not decently large. With acceptance just everything is more or less in order. It’s just technically impossible to double-check everything at the exit control.

      Not true. It's not about the salary. We have never had such a "normal" one. The main thing is in the PERSPECTIVE of growth. It is not even important how much you received today, but that you are sure that there are no boundaries for you, and everything depends only on you. Self-realization is important. Mastery growth, professional growth. It is important to realize that you are not, but a real specialist. Not the difference in executive pay, but the neglect of this new class of upstarts. Thoughtful sons and daughters who got their positions thanks to dads and lovers. There is such a concept - JUSTICE. Each of us wants to see the authorities not smart (nonsense!) Not kind, not demanding, not affectionate, not .... but FAIR. Everything is permeated with a bastard like Mara Baghdasaryan.
    24. 0
      27 January 2020 22: 48
      Again, perhaps the "Fregat" hero of the occasion? When will he be brought to mind, or will he be replaced with something more worthy?

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