Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the defense and space industries in the Russian government, removed all records from his Twitter account on the launch of the Soyuz-2 rocket. 1b "from the Vostochny cosmodrome, which turned out to be emergency. This was noticed by users of social networks.

At the time of writing, the last tweet of Rogozin is dated November 24, it is dedicated to the negotiations of an official with the vice-president of Venezuela.

With Venezuelan Vice-President Wilmar Alfredo Castro Soteldo, we found a common language in Sochi on almost all the issues of bilateral economic and military-technical cooperation pic. twitter. com / 1kCtuGbBOh - Dmitry Rogozin (@Rogozin) November 24, 2017 And why did you rub the three top twins? pic. twitter. com / HpQZlirpjQ - Evsei Belmesov (@bell_mess) November 29, 2017 @Rogozin hike rubbed the latest tweets about launches from the Eastern. After a week or two people will forget about the feil, and you can continue to nag a loot on the space program - enemies over the hill (@Lndcalling) December 1, 2017 Rogozin personally oversaw the launch, together with the head of Roskosmos Igor Komarov. The management of the state corporation, as reported on November 30, rented a business jet from Moscow to Blagoveshchensk with drinks and meals of the elite category, which cost the company nine million rubles.

The Soyuz-2 rocket.

1b with the Fregat upper stage and payload (19 satellites, including 17 foreign ones) started on November 28 from the Eastern, but due to problems with the upper stage the head part of the carrier was lost. The second launch from the main cosmodrome of the country's director of the Roskosmos state corporation at the Eastern Constantine Chmarov called flight tests.

After the accident, Roskosmos reduced the number of planned launches from the new spaceport in the next few years.