ORENBURG. July 14 (Interfax-AVN) - Protests against experiments to blow up solid fuel rocket engines are mounting in the Orenburg region, local governor Alexei Chernyshyov said in a letter to Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov.
"Several media reports claim that tests to blow up solid fuel rocket engines in the Yasneno district are a decided matter. This information is not true," the regional government said in a press release on Friday.
The region's government and the Yasneno district administration will make a final decision on the tests only if environmental agencies support the initiative and after the local authorities finish studying documents describing previous similar experiments, the release reads.
Earlier this month, the Orenburg region's government discussed preparations for experimental explosions of solid fuel rocket engines in the Yasneno district at the beginning of August.