Topic: Lightning strikes Soyuz rocket during launch
oly Member
Posts: 905 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2015
posted 05-28-2019 07:12 AM
Spectacular footage showing lightning striking the Soyuz-2.1b rocket during launch on Monday (May 27).
The lightning strike occurred during the launch of a Glonass-M navigation satellite from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome about 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow at 9:23 a.m. Moscow time (0623 GMT). In a statement, officials with Russia's space agency Roscosmos announced that the rocket successfully reached orbit.
"Lightning is not an obstacle for you!" Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin wrote on Twitter while congratulating the Glonass-M launch team and military Space Forces. He shared a wild video of rocket as it was struck by lightning.
SkyMan1958 Member
Posts: 867 From: CA. Registered: Jan 2011
posted 05-28-2019 10:53 AM
SCE to AUX
Jim Behling Member
Posts: 1463 From: Cape Canaveral, FL Registered: Mar 2010
posted 05-28-2019 08:43 PM
Not at all applicable. The Saturn V was unaffected by the lightning just as the Soyuz wasn't. No spacecraft telemetry is downlinked during launch and there wouldn't be any redundant power source for spacecraft telemetry.