Russian space chief

摘要

Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has fired the chief of the nation's space agency, Anatoly Perminov. Perminov, who has headed Roscosmos since March 2004, will be replaced by deputy defence minister Vladimir Popovkin. A change had been widely rumoured after December 2010, when three satellites for Russia's global navigation network, GLONASS, crashed into the Pacific Ocean on launch.