Roscosmos apologized for CryoSat and Rokot
Roscosmos already presented its apologies to European partners for collapse of CryoSat and Rokot.
European spacecraft CryoSat launched the day before from cosmodrome Plesetzk with carrier rocket "Rokot" fell down to Artic Ocean. Roscosmos already apologized for this accident.
Starting of carrier rockets "Rokot", which had to get CryoSat to orbit, are held up until establishing the causes of today crush. According to pilot analysis, because of control system failure a head part of rocket didn?t get detached. At the same time there were no problems with Earth control equipment. As Russian rocket-space complex announced, flight of spacecraft didn?t go on established mission profile.
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