Russian Soyuz Rocket Malfunctioned

Toroid

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A Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned at about 164,000 feet. The American & Russian were on their way to the ISS and landed safely in Kazakhstan.
Rocket launch malfunction forces astronauts to return to Earth | Daily Mail Online
The secondary booster rockets on the Russian-made Soyuz spacecraft failed just after it launched Thursday
  • American Nick Hague and Russian Aleksey Ovchinin were forced to carry out a 'ballistic re-entry' to get back
  • The two-strong crew landed safely at a site in Kazakhstan hundreds of miles away from the initial launch site
  • Video footage from the launch shows the pair being shaken around as the engine malfunctioned in mid-flight
  • After the incident Russia announced Soyuz flights to the International Space Station would be suspended

www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Ps2N0akIo
 

nivek

As Above So Below
A Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned at about 164,000 feet. The American & Russian were on their way to the ISS and landed safely in Kazakhstan.

I was watching a scene on a video online a day or two ago when this was getting set up to launch and I thought to myself, that I hope it doesn't crash, as if I had an indication something might happen...

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Thank God the 'emergency measures' worked.

Rewind to when we were kids and who would have believed this mission would have ever taken place to begin with? I know the Apollo missions at least had emergency escape 'measures' but never got used. Statistically it was bound to happen
 

Toroid

Founding Member
I think this is the only time there was a manned rocket that exploded after launch and the crew survived.
Rocket launch malfunction forces astronauts to return to Earth | Daily Mail Online

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z9ROOpNT1E
Published on Oct 11, 2018
Soyuz MS-10 crew, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, returned to Baikonur on 11 October 2018, following the aborted launch of the spacecraft launched by a Soyuz-FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on 11 October 2018, at 08:40 UTC (14:40 local time).
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Toroid

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This is an interesting article about the Soyuz, other vehicles that can supply the ISS and its ability to operate without a crew if necessary.
On Thursday a rocket failed. Three humans remain on the ISS. What’s next?
Could the Soyuz on orbit be replaced?

Yes. Three astronauts—American Anne McClain, Canadian David Saint-Jacques, and Russian Oleg Kononenko—were scheduled to launch to the station in mid-December aboard a Soyuz vehicle. If the Russians and NASA aren't fully confident in that launch vehicle, a Soyuz spacecraft could possibly be launched empty to the station and replace the existing Soyuz as a lifeboat for the three astronauts on orbit. This would give the on-orbit crew another 200 days.

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"The vehicle that's going to bring up a replacement crew is moving through its normal development process," Todd said. "Our Russian colleagues would choose how best to handle that situation, and that's all still T.B.D."

Can the ISS be operated from the ground?

NASA's strong preference is to keep astronauts aboard the station. But Todd said NASA does have procedures for operating the station without crew on board. "That's something that we're always prepared for," he said. "I feel very confident that we could fly for a significant period of time."

There is no set period of time. As we understand it, the large space station can be controlled from the ground through its normal operations. However, the risk is that something goes wrong—perhaps with an ammonia pump or with the solar arrays—that cannot be fixed from the ground. In this case, the $100 billion space station would probably be lost. That would be a catastrophic outcome given that NASA and its partners spent 15 years building it, at great cost, and have only begun reaping its research rewards.

Where are the commercial crew vehicles?

They're not ready yet, and Todd was in no great mood to talk about possibly accelerating the availability of SpaceX's Dragon or Boeing's Starliner on Thursday. "We're about eight hours into what was a pretty major anomaly here with this Russian vehicle," he said. "I can promise you we haven't thought too far out for what it means for the commercial crew program. I'm thinking maybe some of the CCP people might be thinking about it."
 

Toroid

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Collision of rocket components blamed for Soyuz MS-10 abort
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