And expecting us to foot the bill.
Bye Soyuz. See you in the museum.
Posted on 10/18/2018 12:05:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"The Soyuz rocket will be launched only after the inquiry has identified the causes of the emergency and measures have been taken to prevent such situations in the future," Krikalev said, according to Russian news agency TASS. Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin initiated the investigation immediately after the launch failure, and the investigating committee has been examining telemetry data and rocket fragments gathered after the incident.
Roscosmos already had five Soyuz launches scheduled to take place before the next crewed launch: a cargo delivery to the International Space Station on Oct. 30 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan; a weather satellite launch on Nov. 6 from Kourou, French Guiana; an Egyptian Earth-observing satellite launch on Nov. 22 from Baikonur; a navigation satellite launch sometime in November from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia; and a launch for a pair of European satellites on Dec. 14 from Kourou.
"The confirmations will be more than enough to put the next crew in space," Krikalev said of those launches, according to TASS. There are several different varieties of the Soyuz rocket. Only the Soyuz-FG model is certified to carry humans; that is the model that failed on Oct. 11. It would be used during the planned Dec. 19 launch that would next carry astronauts to the space station. Several of the upcoming uncrewed launches are assigned to Soyuz 2-1b models.
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I must admit, I am impressed with the Russian space agency. The aborted Soyuz launch was executed with no injuries. When was the last time you saw a NASA launch failure where anyone survived?
And expecting us to foot the bill.
Bye Soyuz. See you in the museum.
Anonymous senior Russian officials report putin suspects President Trump.
Find that very hard to believe.
The conventional wisdom is that Russian/Soviet aero-space hardware, though lacking in high tech electronic bells and whistles, is hardened and redundant. American stuff may be whiz bang, but is a product of the lowest bidder.
I see trouble ahead when cosmic rays cause the robots to mutate.
an Egyptian Earth-observing satellite launch
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Military sat. for observing the Sinai and Israel in disguise ...
Apollo 13?
If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going.
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