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Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK

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

takyon writes:

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.

Hat tip to iWantToKeepAnon who also made a submission on this story.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by PiMuNu on Thursday October 11 2018, @07:55PM (4 children)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Thursday October 11 2018, @07:55PM (#747604)

    Raise you on Russian government blames NASA for sabotaging Soyuz; uses it as political leverage against US

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday October 11 2018, @08:09PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday October 11 2018, @08:09PM (#747617) Journal

    What leverage? The USG and Putin have had bad relations for years, even under President Trump.

    And soon, SpaceX and Boeing will be carrying astronauts to the ISS. Although the timeline probably won't speed up too much:

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/a-soyuz-crew-makes-an-emergency-landing-after-rocket-fails/?comments=1&start=160 [arstechnica.com]

    There is no open spot.

    The Dragon 2 has the new IDSS docking port. It can only dock at [one] of the [IDAs] on the ISS. The IDAs are too close to the CBM used by the HTV launched by Japan. This is why Dragon was delayed until January to give time to unload the HTV and deorbit it before launching the Dragon.

    The Russian orbital segment uses a completely different docking port.

    On edit:
    I realized that was acronym soup
    IDSS - international docking system standard (a common port for both docking and berthing)
    IDA - International docking adapter (an adapter installed on the ISS to convert the existing port to the IDSS)
    CBM - Common Berthing Mechanism. A port for bething not docking cargo spacecraft (and also berthing ISS modules together).
    HTV - H-II Transfer Vehicle. Japan's cargo spacecraft for resupplying the ISS

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    • (Score: 2) by legont on Friday October 12 2018, @12:27AM (1 child)

      by legont (4179) on Friday October 12 2018, @12:27AM (#747725)

      Soon? It seems more likely to me that no American rocket will carry humans to this space station ever.

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  • (Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Friday October 12 2018, @09:48AM

    by Rivenaleem (3400) on Friday October 12 2018, @09:48AM (#747837)

    Trump has private meeting with Putin, Soyuz ships start failing, coincidence?