The State Commission appointed missile launch from the East on the morning of April 28 – RBC

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The State commission has decided to hold a rocket launch from the Baikonur East in the morning on April 28

According to the official statement issued by the press service “Roscosmos”, the State commission during its meeting decided to hold the missile launch from Vostochny cosmodrome April 28 at 5:01 MSK.

This will be the first launch of the carrier rocket from the spaceport in the Amur region. Initially it was to be held the morning of April 27, but a minute before the start of the canceled due to problems with one of the missile equipment.

According to the preliminary version, the cause of failure was the problem with the device launch vehicle control systems. Later, General Director of “Roscosmos” Igor Komarov said that “the problem place was localized».

On the first run came in the Amur Region President Vladimir Putin. After the cancellation of the flight, he said the need to draw conclusions. “If failures are related to sloppiness, I want to understand how the debriefing in such cases”, – President said. He noted that the failure is not related to the state of the cosmodrome. Putin was in the Amur region for another day.