Fell into the sea near Siberia when its engine accidentally shut down
The Space Missile Agency of Ukraine announced today (Friday) that a computer error caused the crash of the Zyklon 3 rocket, which disappeared on Wednesday a few minutes after its launch.
According to the initial test findings, 367 seconds after the launch of the missile, which carried six satellites, an order was issued to turn off the engines, the announcement said. The malfunction was caused by an error in the missile's computer system, said the spokesman for the agency, who did not provide further details, but said that the investigation of the case continues.
This is a new obstacle in Russia's space program. The missile was successfully launched from a launch base in northwestern Russia, but
The six satellites he was carrying failed to detach from the launch vehicle. The Interfax news agency reported that the missile disappeared from the control screens minutes after it was launched at 22:02 Moscow time from the Plastsk launch base.
Sources in the Ministry of Defense said that the cause of the failure was a defect in one of the engines, which were designed and built in Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense, which was supposed to use three of the six satellites, announced that it would establish a special committee to determine the cause of the incident.
Russian authorities are trying to locate the remains of the missing missile. Officials in the Russian space program were quoted as saying that the missile parts landed in the Bering Straits that separate Siberia and Alaska. "The Strategic Missile Forces informed us that the missile fell in the area of Wrangel Island, in the Siberian Sea," said Konstantin Kraidenko, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency.
There is a danger of environmental damage if the missile crashes on the ground. A rocket carrying a $60 million satellite disappeared in November of this year, minutes after it was launched from the same base.
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