Now they are blaming the destruction of the bearing bracket..... http://russian.rt.com/article/34227
MOSCOW, June 11. /ITAR-TASS/. The May 16 crash of the Proton space rocket was due to a failed bearing in the steering engines turbo pump, the chief of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Oleg Ostapenko, told ITAR-TASS.>
Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 06/11/2014 10:21 am...but interestingly enough one active member at Novosti Kosmonavtiki says that usually such "conclusions" actually does not follow the real reason of the failures, citing many previous Proton and Soyuz failures in the past and even that of Soyuz-1 (!). Someone might try to comment on this..... Years later the root cause was re-established as spontaneous decomposition of the HTP.
...but interestingly enough one active member at Novosti Kosmonavtiki says that usually such "conclusions" actually does not follow the real reason of the failures, citing many previous Proton and Soyuz failures in the past and even that of Soyuz-1 (!). Someone might try to comment on this.....
Yuri Prokhorov, director-general of RSCC, whose fleet growth has been hampered by multiple Proton and in-orbit satellite failures in the past five years, said he remains confident that Proton will launch three RSCC satellites on three separate missions before the end of the year.In a June 18 interview here, Prokhorov said Moscow-based RSCC has been told that Proton would return to flight in September with the launch of a Russian government Luch data-relay satellite. Launches for state-owned RSCC are also considered as part of Russias government launch program, even if RSCC is operated as a commercial company.