Day: December 12, 2017

Alexander Ivanov The first Deputy head of Roscosmos Alexander Ivanov called the cause of the unsuccessful launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome rocket “Soyuz-2.1 b” with the upper stage “Fregat” and 19 satellites, reports RIA Novosti. “NPO Automatics produces a control system of the launch vehicle, and the school npcap control system of the booster units. They have different things, this discrepancy founded 20 years ago,” Ivanov said, and I noticed that in this case, the experts “ran into the difference in the two schools.” The official pointed to “the imperfection of the software algorithms of the control system upper stage”. “The algorithm of operation of the control system resulted in incorrect determination of the orientation of the block after separation from the booster when you incorrectly set the initial azimuth of the launch vehicle and upper stage at the launch complex. While existing methods of mathematical modeling could not identify

The latest American destroyer the USS Zumwalt has interrupted the test and returned to the shipyard, located in Maine. The cause of the incident was the failure of the ship, said in a statement the U.S. Navy. It is reported portal of the naval Institute, U.S. (USNI). It is noted that the day after the departure from the shipyard the destroyer “refused harmonic filters that protect sensitive electrical equipment from undesirable power fluctuations”, reports RIA Novosti. As a result, the ship disappeared the opportunity to use a complex electrical network at high loads. High-tech destroyer, launched last fall, has several times visited in the repair. In addition, the ship was expensive to operate. So, at the cost of the ship at $ 4.4 billion, shot out of a cannon costs the budget of 800 thousand dollars. The laying of the first Zumwalt destroyer was held in November 2011 in the

Bashar Al-Assad The administration of U.S. President Donald trump agrees with the finding of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in power until 2021. On this edition of The New Yorker told a number of sources in the American and European corridors of power. The official position of Washington was influenced by successes of Syrian government forces with the support of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. Currently, Damascus control such “gems” of the opposition, as Damascus, Hama, HOMS, Latakia and Aleppo — of the territory called in the US “useful Syria”. Assad has managed to combine the things that a year ago was caved in, the newspaper said. In addition, the success of the Syrian opposition in the fight against “Islamic state” (IG, an organization banned in Russia) was much more modest indicators of Damascus. On the backdrop of the internal contradictions of the U.S.-backed factions quarreled among themselves, and unable to be