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Philip Member Posts: 5952 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001	posted 10-16-2002 12:50 AM This night an Unmanned Soyuz Expendable Launch Vehicle exploded about half a minute in flight ... It carried a Foton scientific experiments probe among which some Belgian equipment ... In 14 days time the Soyuz Launch Vehicle has to carry the Soyuz TMA-01 crew to ISS in order to replace the previous Soyuz Capsule acting as a lifeboat for the 3-man resident crew onboard ISS ... Might this launch failure affect launches or will the Russians go for launch and replace the Soyuz as planned ... I believe in the latter option ...
ALAIN Member Posts: 355 From: GENT, Belgium Registered: Apr 2001	posted 10-21-2002 02:05 AM Looks like the launch of the new Soyuz TMA-01 vehicle is postponed to 30 October or 01 November ... The 3-man crew awaits further news ( ZALYOTIN + LONCHAKOV + DE WINNE ) ... Does anybody ( in Europe ) know if any of the ( Belgian ) TV-channels willbroadcast the launch LIVE on TV ? Best regards from BELGIQUE !
spaceuk Member Posts: 2113 From: Staffs, UK Registered: Aug 2002	posted 10-23-2002 01:15 PM As they have announced 30th Oct as launch date, I assume they have a good knowledge of what caused the Plesetsk accident? Have the Russians published any details yet of the accident cause?
Jacques van Oene Member Posts: 861 From: Houten, The Netherlands Registered: Oct 2001	posted 10-23-2002 05:42 PM From the ISS daily Status, 23-10-2002: Launch preparations at Baikonur continue for Soyuz launch at 10:11pm EST on 10/29 (next Tuesday). The ISS currently remains XPOP (sun-oriented) flight attitude. This will be interrupted on 10/31 (10:19pm EST) for two hours when station attitude will be switched to inertial mode for the Soyuz 5S docking at 11:56pm (briefly in free drift). Preliminary investigation of the Soyuz-U launch mishap at Plesetsk on 10/15 indicates that the failure was caused by loss of thrust in one of the booster's side blocks due to off-nominal operation of the hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) feed to the engine's turbopump unit. Jacques :-) www.spacepatches.info www.jacqmans.com
ALAIN Member Posts: 355 From: GENT, Belgium Registered: Apr 2001	posted 10-30-2002 01:51 AM Soyuz TMA-01 successfully launched with Russians ZALYOTIN & LONCHAKOV and Belgian ESA cosmonaut Frank DE WINNE at 30 04:11 GMT OCT 02 ... Lots of publicy in Belgium of course !
Philip Member Posts: 5952 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001	posted 11-26-2002 01:05 PM Belgium's second spacefarer Air Force Colonel Ir Frank De Winne returned to Belgium yesterday 24 November 2002 ... Lots of space-fans welcomed him at the National airport Brussels-Zaventem ...

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