More Control Measures For Rockets Assembly To Be Introduced Over Souyz Crash- Manufacturer

Additional procedures to check rockets' sensors as well as photo and video documentation will become mandatory during the assembly of Soyuz rockets in light of the recent accident with Russia's Soyuz-FG rocket, Dmitry Baranov, the interim general director of Russia's JSC SRC Progress launch vehicles' manufacturer, said on Tuesday.

SAMARA (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 20th November, 2018) Additional procedures to check rockets' sensors as well as photo and video documentation will become mandatory during the assembly of Soyuz rockets in light of the recent accident with Russia's Soyuz-FG rocket, Dmitry Baranov, the interim general director of Russia's JSC SRC Progress launch vehicles' manufacturer, said on Tuesday.

"Currently the assembly .... is being carried out in compliance with a separate scope of work, under special supervision, and is accompanied by additional procedures to monitor systems, as well as photo and video recording. According to the action plan of the accident board, which soon will be finally adopted, ... at the beginning of the second quarter [of 2019] these procedures will be included in the documentation and become a part of ordinary practice," Baranov told journalists.

He added that following the Soyuz-FG rocket accident designers dismantled and rechecked once again several space vehicles, which were then successfully launched.

On October 11, Russian Soyuz-FG carrier rocket failed to take off properly from Baikonur and deliver the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying two crew members on board to the International Space Station (ISS). Just a few minutes after the liftoff, the booster's malfunction forced the crew to escape in a rescue capsule, which eventually allowed them to return on Earth safely.

According to the accident board, the crash of the Soyuz-FG carrier was caused by malfunctioning of the detector that signals separation of the rocket's first and second stages.