Russian space organization Roscosmos said last month it had lost touch with the newly-released weather satellite - the Meteor-M - after it blasted off from Russia’s new Vostochny cosmodrome inside East.
Eighteen smaller satellites belonging to medical, studies and industrial companies from Russia, Norway, Sweden, the usa, Japan, Canada and Germany, had been on board the same rocket.
Talking to Rossiya 24 state television channel, Rogozin stated the failure was due to human error.
The rocket taking the satellites were programmed with the incorrect coordinates, he stated, saying it have been given bearings for take-off from a exceptional cosmodrome - Baikonur - which Moscow leases from Kazakhstan.
“The rocket become simply programmed as though it changed into taking off from Baikonur,” stated Rogozin. “They didn’t get the coordinates proper.”
The Vostochny spaceport, laid out inside the thick taiga woodland of the Amur area, is the first civilian rocket launch site in Russia.
In April last year, after delays and large expenses overruns, Russia released its first rocket from Vostochny, a day after a technical glitch pressured an embarrassing postponement of the occasion in the presence of President Vladimir Putin.