A bad start from the East blamed for a discrepancy of 20 years ago
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