Dmitry Rogozin
Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin explained to TASS the punishment imposed by the state corporation against the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RSC), a developer and manufacturer of Soyuz-2 rockets, as well as civil and military spacecraft.
“Our subsidiary a few years ago launched a rocket of its production of a spacecraft of its own production, and he soon died in orbit,” the manager said, without specifying the name of the satellite.
According to him, according to the current Russian legislation, the state corporation “is obliged to file a claim in connection with the failure of the satellite, including in the cost of the claim the cost of the launch service for putting this device into orbit,” “.
Rogozin blamed the incident on the previous leadership of the Progress RCC, which is currently under investigation. “For those who think with their own heads and will save their enterprise, it will not be easy to find a solution,” the official said about the prospects of the Soyuz-2 manufacturer, which in 2020 ensured 14 out of 16 Russian launches.
According to him, the state corporation “is obliged to punish the plant and its staff for mistakes made by people who have not worked at this plant for a long time.”
In December, the US Department of Commerce published a list of Russian and Chinese organizations that have been sanctioned for cooperation with the military, in particular the Samara RCC Progress.
The amount of Roscosmos' claims against the Progress RCC exceeds 4.7 billion rubles.
At present, mass layoffs are being carried out at the Progress RCC, and Roscosmos is withdrawing money from this enterprise. In July 2018, the general director of the corporation Dmitry Rogozin announced the merger of the profitable RCC Progress and the unprofitable Khrunichev Center, which produces Proton-M and Angara rockets, into production cooperation. “We need to quickly adopt a plan for the financial recovery of the Khrunichev Center,” the manager explained his decision.
According to him, from 2018 to 2020, thanks to the efforts of Roskosmos, the government and the Ministry of Finance, the financial “hole” created by the Moscow Khrunichev Center was reduced by 70 billion rubles.
In January 2019, the current general director of the Progress RCC, Dmitry Baranov, said that the Russian satellites for remote sensing of the Earth “Resurs-P” No. 2 and No. 3 did not work due to an electronics failure. “Firstly, the reason is technical, it has been generally established, but these things have not yet been legally formalized to the end, so this has not yet been brought into the media field. The reasons for the failures are, if we speak, so to speak, in general terms, in the failure of the electronic component base, “said the head of the enterprise.
The Samara enterprise is not engaged in the production of electronic components for satellites, but buys them, like other enterprises of the state corporation, from the outside. Due to the sanctions imposed by Western countries against Moscow after the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014, the access of Russian enterprises to modern microelectronics for space purposes is limited.
Resurs-P satellites # 1, # 2 and # 3 were launched in June 2013, December 2014 and March 2016, respectively, on the Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome. At present, only the first spacecraft is functioning normally, the second is not working, the third is partially working.
