Remember that Russian space capsule that sprang a leak a few weeks ago? It's happened again.
An uncrewed Russian spacecraft docked at the International Space Station has lost cabin pressure, but the incident does not pose a danger to the station's crew, the Russian space corporation said on Saturday.
We all knew their airlines wouldn't last long (safely) due to sanctions, but now it appears their space efforts are also in question (that is my opinion with no facts to back it up. But still). 2 consecutive spacecraft, suffering the same failure, makes one go "hmmmm".
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(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Monday February 13, @01:18AM
The Russian economy basically produces oil and gas. And a bit of heavy industry. Anything that could be considered "high tech" is imported. Or rather, was when it was still possible.
And spacecraft currently don't really entertain priority treatment when it comes to scarce resources.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Monday February 13, @01:27AM
TFA is updated, it lost coolant pressure, the cabin pressure is fine.
All the same, having the same thing happen a second time isn't confidence inspiring.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13, @03:08AM (2 children)
Purely a coincidence, nothing to see here
(Score: 5, Funny) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday February 13, @04:47AM (1 child)
Yeah, not to mention, they didn't go "hmmmmm", they went "shhhhhhhhh".
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday February 13, @07:34PM
At least this time it is one of their uncrewed spacecraft.
I wouldn't want to ride in one of their crude spacecraft.
Nor on that flying, thing, um . . . New Shepard.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 13, @03:24AM
It's gotta be those dirty 'Muricans!
https://www.space.com/russia-blames-nasa-astronaut-soyuz-leak [space.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13, @09:43AM
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream [substack.com]
(Score: 2) by datapharmer on Tuesday February 14, @03:16AM
This sends my mind racing… Is this the vehicle they intended to use as a replacement for the one that leaked coolant before? If so, not great news. If it wasn’t, then is there any chance this could have been intentional so they can send it back first and see what reentry looks like with an uncrewed cabin?
I’d think this would have been an ideal replacement for the first craft but I don’t know enough about the Soyuz program to know if this could have even been converted to something human rated or not.
(Score: 2) by its_gonna_be_yuge! on Wednesday February 15, @04:05PM
Hmmmm is the sweet sound of a Howitzer sending a pin-pointed round at the turret creases
in the Russian tanks, blowing their tops off like jack-in-the-boxes.