Roscosmos Says Will Inform NASA, ESA About Results Of Probe Into Soyuz Booster Incident

Fakhir Rizvi Published October 15, 2018 | 08:04 PM

The Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said on Monday that it will inform the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) about the results of the ongoing probe into the recent Soyuz rocket launch incident.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 15th October, 2018) The Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said on Monday that it will inform the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) about the results of the ongoing probe into the recent Soyuz rocket launch incident.

"Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin has pledged to provide European and US partners with all the necessary information about the results of our experts' work and measures taken to restore the reliability of Soyuz launch vehicles to ensure the safe delivery of crews to the International Space Station [ISS]," Roscosmos said in a statement.

A manned Soyuz mission to the ISS was aborted on Thursday over a rocket booster failure. The crew of two - a Russian cosmonaut and a NASA astronaut - made a safe emergency landing in their Soyuz capsule and were soon picked up by rescuers.

The incident became the first failure of a manned space launch in modern Russian history and prompted Roscosmos to set up a special commission to find out the causes of the failure.