Italy between Moscow and Beijing, at the base a launch of a failed space carrier, rocket produced in Italy by Avio (Leonardo group) of Colleferro (Rome). This was reported by Il Messaggero, leading sources of Italian secret services. #Avio, she may have been the victim of a sabotage because of the intrigues that the intelligence has related to the manager Aleksandr Korshunov and the former employee of Avio Aero (General Electrics group) under investigation, Maurizio Paolo Bianchi.
The failure of the rocket launch caused the collapse of the Italian company on the stock exchange with strong repercussions on its reputation. The arrest of Aleksandr Korshunov could better clarify what happened just two months ago, almost 8 thousand kilometers away from Italy.
On 10 July, ESA, the European Space Agency, had planned the launch of a satellite from French Guiana. The goal was to send Falcon Eye 1, a high-resolution military earth observation satellite for the United Arab Emirates military, into orbit. The missile, the Vega 15, which carried the satellite had been produced in the Colleferro dell'Avio factories. Two minutes after the rocket launch and the cargo ended up in the sea after an anomaly. It is the first failure of the Italian company, judged very anomalous right from the start, after 14 successful missions. Vega, acronym for European Advanced Generation Carrier, is an operational carrier in use by Arianespace, developed in collaboration by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA) for the launch of small satellites into orbit. ESA immediately launched a commission of inquiry which concluded its work just last Thursday. "European analysts wrote on the basis of observations regarding the few milliseconds around the anomaly - the Commission identified the thermostructural failure in the area of the front dome of the Z23 engine as the most likely cause. Other possible causes, such as the involuntary activation of the neutralization system, have been considered unlikely ".
Furthermore, no evidence of a malicious act was found. So far the analysis of the commission commissioned by ESA, but in Italy the report, although considered reliable, has not entirely convinced why the puzzle reconstructed by the commission could lack some fundamental pieces that could now provide the investigations started with the arrest of the manager Russian in Naples.
To clarify the story there was immediately the mobilization of our Services with two military delegates who started a highly confidential investigation. The Italian conclusions have not yet been made known and to fuel the suspicions there would be not only the rocket, but the load it was carrying: that Falcon Eye, the first spy satellite of the United Arab Emirates.
Avio and General Electric
Avio has very intense relations with General Electric to which it sold Avio Aereo for 3,3 billion euros, the company which, according to the FBI, is at the center of the Russian manager's interests. Behind these Russian movements it is suspected that there may be other infidel technicians, perhaps economically corrupted by the Russians, who caused the failure of the Vega mission. The result of the probable sabotage is however "disruptive": the aims of the United Arab Emirates are hindered and a flagship of the Italian space industry is brought to its knees.