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posted by martyb on Thursday October 11 2018, @07:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-going-to-space-today dept.

Soyuz FG fails during ascent – Soyuz MS-10 crew safe after ballistic entry abort

The Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, launched their Soyuz MS-10 crew vehicle with two new crewmembers that were set for the International Space Station. However, the launch – which took place on Thursday at 0840 UTC from Baikonur – failed a few minutes into flight. Soyuz MS-10 was then aborted on a ballistic entry, before safely landing downrange of the launch site.

The crewed Soyuz, which would normally ferry three people to the Station, was carrying a reduced crew complement as part of Russia's initiative to keep their total crew presence on Station to just two until the launch, late next year, of their primary science lab, Nauka.

However, those plans are unlikely to apply now Soyuz MS-10 has failed to arrive at the ISS, with the Soyuz FG likely to be grounded for some time as a State Commision invesigation[sic] takes place.

Also at The Verge, Reuters, and CNN, and CBS.


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  • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday October 11 2018, @08:15PM (1 child)

    by Sulla (5173) on Thursday October 11 2018, @08:15PM (#747621) Journal

    When is the soonest that a Dragon authorized for crew is able to get up there?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Thursday October 11 2018, @08:22PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday October 11 2018, @08:22PM (#747625) Journal

    Under the current plans, they would get there in June 2019:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_2#Flight_testing [wikipedia.org]

    The first orbital test of Crew Dragon 2 will be an uncrewed mission, designated SpX-DM1 and scheduled, as of October 2018, for January 2019. The spacecraft will test the approach and automated docking procedures with the ISS, remain docked for a few weeks, then conduct the full re-entry, splashdown and recovery steps to qualify for a crewed mission. Life support systems will be monitored all along the test flight. The same capsule will be re-used later for an in-flight abort test.

    SpaceX plans to conduct an in-flight abort test from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A in Florida after the first uncrewed orbital test flight and prior to the first crewed test flight. The test is planned to be conducted approximately in May 2019 with the refurbished capsule from the uncrewed test flight.

    [...] As of October 2018, Dragon 2 is scheduled to carry its first crew of two NASA astronauts on a 14-day test flight mission to the ISS in June 2019. They could well be the first people to ride a post-Shuttle American spacecraft into orbit, since the orbital test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner is currently scheduled for the August of 2019.

    Given the major disruption that has just happened, that info may no longer be accurate.

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