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Topic:	Soyuz MS-10 launch anomaly [updates]

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]collectSPACE <blockquote><font size="+0"><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101118a-soyuz-ms10-launch-station.html"> Astronaut, cosmonaut land safely after Soyuz MS-10 launch failure</a></font> [i]A Russian cosmonaut and an American astronaut bound for the International Space Station are safely back on Earth after an in-flight failure of their Russian rocket forced an emergency landing. Aleksey Ovchinin of the Russian federal space corporation Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA made a ballistic landing aboard Russia's Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft following a failure of their Soyuz-FG rocket, which launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:40 a.m. EDT (0840 GMT; 2:40 p.m. Kazakh time) on Thursday (Oct. 11) as scheduled. Ovchinin and Hague made it back to the ground, where they were eventually met by Russian recovery forces to return them to Baikonur.[/i]</blockquote> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101118a-soyuz-ms10-launch-station.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-101118a-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center>[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD><BLOCKQUOTE>Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, crew poised for launchSoyuz MS-10 commander Aleksey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and flight engineer Nick Hague of NASA are set to launch to the International Space Station on Thursday (Oct. 11) at 3:40 a.m. CDT (2040 GMT or 2:40 p.m. local) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/soyuzms10_crew01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/soyuzms10_crew01.jpg" width="400" height="268" border="0"></a></center>They will dock the Soyuz to the space station's Poisk module at 9:44 a.m. CDT (1444 GMT) the same day, after a four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous. About two hours later, the hatches between the Soyuz and the space station will open and Ovchinin and Hague will be greeted by Expedition 57 commander Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, both flight engineers. Ovchinin and Hague will stay on the station through March 2019. On Tuesday (Oct. 9), the Soyuz-FG rocket topped with the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft was rolled out to the pad by train and erected into position.</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/soyuzms10_rollout01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/soyuzms10_rollout01.jpg" width="400" height="242" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>collectSPACE <blockquote><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101118a-soyuz-ms10-launch-station.html"> Astronaut, cosmonaut land safely after Soyuz MS-10 launch failure</a>A Russian cosmonaut and an American astronaut bound for the International Space Station are safely back on Earth after an in-flight failure of their Russian rocket forced an emergency landing.Aleksey Ovchinin of the Russian federal space corporation Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA made a ballistic landing aboard Russia's Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft following a failure of their Soyuz-FG rocket, which launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:40 a.m. EDT (0840 GMT; 2:40 p.m. Kazakh time) on Thursday (Oct. 11) as scheduled.Ovchinin and Hague made it back to the ground, where they were eventually met by Russian recovery forces to return them to Baikonur.</blockquote> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101118a-soyuz-ms10-launch-station.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-101118a-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>Roscosmos release <blockquote>Press-conference on the findings of the State Committee investigation of the Soyuz failure of October 11, 2018A press-conference on the findings of the State Committee investigation of the cause of contingency occurred during Soyuz-FG LV/ Soyuz MS-10 spaceship launch on October 11, 2018 has been held at the Mission Control Center of TsNIImash (the Central Research Institute of Machine Building).The press-conference participants are: the Chair of the Investigation Committee/ TsNIImash Deputy Director General Mr. Oleg Skorobogatov, TsNIImash Acting Director General Mr. Nikolai Sevastyanov, Roscosmos Deputy Director General for Rocket Building, Space-Related Ground Infrastructure and Quality Assurance Mr. Alexander Lopatin, Energia Director General Mr. Sergey Romanov, Progress Director General Mr. Dmitry Baranov, TsNIImash Designer General of Launch Vehicles and Space-Related Ground Infrastructure/ Deputy Director General Mr. Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Bio-Medical Agency Mr. Vyacheslav Rogozhnikov, Director of the Institute of Bio-Medical Problems at RAS Academician Oleg Orlov, and Head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Mr. Pavel Vlasov.<center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CrzlMTRVt_I" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>

As follows from the findings of the Investigation Committee told to reporters by Oleg Skorobogatov, "The launch ended up with a launcher failure caused by abnormal separation of one of the strap-on boosters (Block D) that hit with its nose the core stage (Block A) in the fuel tank area. It resulted in its decompression and, as consequence, the space rocket lost its attitude control."

The abnormal separation was caused by the non-opening of the lid of the nozzle intended to separate aside Block D oxidizer tank due to the deformation of the separation sensor pin (bended by 6 degrees, 45'). It was damaged during the assembling of the strap-on boosters with the core stage (the Packet) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The LV failure cause is of the operational nature and spreads to the stock of already assembled packets of the Soyuz rocket.

The Emergency Crew Rescue System of Soyuz MS-10 spaceship functioned properly. The crew was acting as required by the on-board instructions and those given by the Mission Control Center.

To ensure the implementation of the Launch Manifest for the missions under the Federal Space Program and Russia's international cooperation programs, Roscosmos has arranged a development of preventive measures to avoid any such contingences in the future and taking of urgent actions to resume Soyuz launches in November 2018. Along with that, the State Committee has approved the launch dates under the International Space Station Program as follows: the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket with Progress MS−10 cargo spaceship to go on November 16, 2018, and the launch of Soyuz MS-11 manned spaceship to go on December 3, 2018. The crew of Soyuz MS-09 — Alexander Gerst (ESA), Sergey Prokopiev (Roscosmos) and Serina Auñón-Chensellor (NASA) — will return to the Earth on December 20, 2018.

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