The Ministry of Defense wants to recover billions from the “daughter” of Roskosmos for disrupting the development of an upper stage
The Energia Rocket and Space Corporation failed to develop an upper stage for the Angara-A5 launch vehicle on time. Now the Ministry of Defense is trying to recover 3.23 billion rubles from the company.
RSC Energia was supposed to upgrade the DM-03 upper stage for the Angara-A5 rocket as part of the Perseus-KV R&D. However, the contractor did not meet the schedule. The delay was more than three years and three months.
“Upper stages are the Achilles’ heel of Russian cosmonautics,” experts say.
Among the reasons for the failures, experts cite a shortage of personnel and shortcomings in the management of the company, which led to criminal cases and arrests of top managers.
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