A Russian mission to send an expensive weather satellite into space end in spectacular nonstarter last calendar month , with therocket gate-crash into Earthjust hours after launch . On Wednesday , Russia ’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told reporters the clangor was the result of a dewy-eyed human error . That is , programmers had plugged in the incorrect coordinates .
“ The Eruca sativa was really programme as if it was take off from Baikonur , ” Rogozin told the Rossiya 24 state of matter tv set distribution channel , reportsReuters , even though the rocket salad launching was taking place in Vostochny . “ They did n’t get the coordinates good . "
If lawful , it ’s a very embarrassing blunder on the part of Roscosmos , the governmental governing body in thrill of Russia ’s outer space plan and this special launch .
But to add to the confusion , the agency released their own statement concisely after Rogozin ’s televised audience , strongly deny his claims .
mouth to Russian land - operated news show agencyRIA Novosti , a representative from Roscosmos explained the " reason for the fortuity is a combination of several factors at the Vostocny Cosmodrome … [ that are ] impossible to detect by any be mathematical framework . ”
Essentially , they say the computer error is not quite as basic as Rogozin makes out .
The flight mission had been specially plan for the newly built Vostochny Cosmodrome ( and not for Baikonur ) , the voice is report to haveadded .
The launching in question remove place on November 28 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in AmurOblast , a Union subject of Russia in the Russian Far East . While the event seemed to go without a hitch , it was uncover just a few minute after that something had gone wrong and Roscosmos hadnot been capable to constitute a connectionduring the first plan communicating academic term .
Later , telecasting footageemerged showing what is call up to be the rocket ( a Soyuz-2.1 ) cauterize up over Montreal , Canada , before plunging into the Atlantic Ocean .
The rocket was carrying a 2,750 - kilogram ( 6,062 - pound ) weather satellite called a Meteor - M , as well as 18 small satellites belonging to research and commercial company in a bit of countries , including Russia , the US , Norway , Germany , Japan , Sweden , and Canada .
But it is the loss of Meteor - M – one of a serial of weather satellites developed to monitor the Earth ’s climate from a opposite orbit – that is particularly disastrous for Russia . It cost the country 2.6 billion roubles , which is roughly tantamount to $ 45 million or £ 33 million .
