ISS Crew Launch Failure

[Waspie_Dwarf]

Crewed Soyuz flights set to resume after Russia blames close call on final-assembly error

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MOSCOW — Accident investigators confirmed that the failed Soyuz launch to the International Space Station three weeks ago was caused by a damaged sensor in the booster package, a fault attributed to the final assembly stage of the rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Oleg Skorobogatov, deputy director of Russia’s Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMASH) told reporters here Nov. 1.

As was clear from video of the Oct. 11 launch, the flight of Soyuz MS-10 was aborted 118 seconds after liftoff when one of the rocket’s four side boosters failed to eject properly — colliding with the rocket’s second stage, damaging the lower portion of the rocket and sending the entire assembly into a spin, triggering an automated abort that jettisoned the crewed capsule.

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[bmk1245]

On 11/6/2018 at 12:49 AM, Waspie_Dwarf said:

How so? The Russian space survived pretty well before the ISS. It does not, and never has, relied on the USA (although it is true that the ISS was certainly helpful when the Russian space programme was poorly funded back in the early days of the cooperation).

Roscosmos has cooperative agreements with ESA, China, JAXA and the UAE space agency. Like NASA the ISS is not the only  programme it is involved with. The premature ending of the ISS would certainly hurt Roscosmos, as it would NASA, JAXA and ESA, but it would not end the Russian space programme.

Well, maybe not the end in the sense of full end, but stagnation and decline. And its not just about ISS. New technologies may fall under US sanctions on dual-purpose goods, and that can hurt Roscosmos in big way.

BTW, kazakhs, one of the best allies of Russia, chose SpaceX to launch their satellites. Thats freakin' wake-up call/bucket of cold water for russkies.

[toast]

8 hours ago, bmk1245 said:

BTW, kazakhs, one of the best allies of Russia, chose SpaceX to launch their satellites. Thats freakin' wake-up call/bucket of cold water for russkies.

On that single flight, the Falcon9 will carry 70 (seven-zero) satellite into orbit so SpaceX was able to offer a price thats ways below competing companies tariffs. Thats the modus operandi of Elon: reduce costs by big payload volume per unit/lift-up and by the use of reusable carriers = reduce costs for the clients.

Edited November 10, 2018 by toast

[bmk1245]

15 hours ago, toast said:

On that single flight, the Falcon9 will carry 70 (seven-zero) satellite into orbit so SpaceX was able to offer a price thats ways below competing companies tariffs. Thats the modus operandi of Elon: reduce costs by big payload volume per unit/lift-up and by the use of reusable carriers = reduce costs for the clients.

Yeah, I know that. Anyway, few years ago russkies laughed at Musks idea of reusable rockets, nowadays they are claiming that was their idea

OT, famed equation "derived" by Tsiolkovsky, was derived by William Moore and William Leich waaay before Tsiolkovsky.