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Gathering engines “Proton”, the plant decided to transfer to the new Manager
the Voronezh mechanical plant
the Plant, which produces engines for carrier rockets “proton”, will be transferred under management of “Energomash”. Earlier it became known about the withdrawal of all engines of the second and third stage of “proton-M” from-for poor quality
Voronezh mechanical plant (VMZ), collecting engines for carrier rockets of the “Soyuz” and “proton” will pass under the control of the scientific-production Association “Energomash”. About it reports “Kommersant” with reference to several top-managers of enterprises of space industry.
According to interlocutors of the edition, such decision was accepted during a meeting under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, in order to bring the company, put the brakes on starting the program “Proton” from the crisis. Currently VMZ is a subsidiary of the State space scientific production center Khrunichev.
“In the framework of the formation of the integrated structures of the rocket engine, and also to implement strategies to improve the quality of manufactured products “Roscosmos” made the decision to move VMZ under our management” — confirmed the General Director of “Energomash” Igor Arbuzov. He also noted that the “road map” of reforms has been developed.
About the problems with the engines of the second and third stage of “Proton” was announced on January 25. “Kommersant” reported that because of the technological problems found on the results of fire tests, it was decided to recall all engines of the second and third stages of the rockets produced at VMZ in 2015. As noted by the publication, the opinion of a dozen engines could impact on the conduct of launches of carrier rockets from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
then in the “Roskosmos” reported that the industry is total quality control of products and therefore a possible delay of launches of “Proton”.
Soon, the state Corporation said that the engines for the second stages of “Proton” was going on VMZ violation of the design documentation. They used do not meet the technical requirements of the solder. As noted by “Kommersant”, the situation is interested in the FSB and the Investigative Committee, where we try to understand how was the replacement of material, if the documents are all the engines in order.
on Saturday, January 28, VSW, held an emergency meeting under the guidance Rogozin and General Director of Roscosmos Igor Komarov. According to its results the Deputy Prime Minister said that the three “Proton-M” will be disassembled for replacement of the engines of the second and third steps, and all the perpetrators of the substitution technology and the documentation will be “severely punished”. He also said that the launches of carrier rockets will resume in roughly 3.5 months.
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