Soyuz

[funkyrobot]

At the moment, it reminds me of my wife trying to get something out of her hand bag.

[MartG]

Funny how there was a ( allegedly Boeing funded ) article about concerns that outgassing from paint on Dragon was affecting experiments on the ISS, yet no-one seemed bothered about all the debris from this little operation

[Toaster]

Eric Mc said:

And your point is?

Its supposed to be a Science discussion

[Toaster]

Gandahar said:

You and your rockets :blabla

Like big kids.

Real science starts after the rocket.

Pfftt

Totally Agree with you

[Eric Mc]

MartG said:

Funny how there was a ( allegedly Boeing funded ) article about concerns that outgassing from paint on Dragon was affecting experiments on the ISS, yet no-one seemed bothered about all the debris from this little operation

I don't suppose flakes of foil are as problematic to the science experiments as molecules or gas.

[MartG]

Reports that today's launch of EgyptSat-A has ended up in a lower than expected orbit - possible issues with the Fregat 3rd stage burn ( again )

[Eric Mc]

It seems they have managed to nudge the satellite up into the correct orbit. The current unreliability of recent Russian space technology is not very confidence inspiring.

[MartG]

Eric Mc said:

It seems they have managed to nudge the satellite up into the correct orbit. The current unreliability of recent Russian space technology is not very confidence inspiring.

Yet despite these issues NASA seems happy to pay them $80million per seat for a ride to the ISS while placing administrative hurdles in the way of their Commercial Crew contractors getting their spacecraft off the ground

[Eric Mc]

I don't think the Fregate stage which is where all the problems seem to be is used on the manned Soyuz system.

[Eric Mc]

Tim Peake's Soyuz spacecraft has gone on permanent display today at the Science Museum following a 20 month tour of the UK.

I can see another trip up to the museum on the horizon.

[funkyrobot]

Thanks for the heads up.

Saw it when it was first there, then at the National Railway museum. Annoyingly missed it at Peterborough cathedral though (my local city) as at the time we went to see it, the cathedral was shut.

[Europa1]

I think this is so brilliant. The UK is thousands of engineers short of what it needs every year. Part of this is because children, but more importantly their parents, think "engineering" is about spanners and having to swarfega your hands at the end of every working day. Hopefully initiatives like this will help overcome this.

[Leithen]

A spacewalk from the ISS has been cancelled because a leak has been spotted from the Soyuz.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2022/12/14/spa...

[Leithen]

Twitter thread by Anatoly Zak with images.

https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1603211...

Looks like a big leak.

[Eric Mc]

More Soyuz issues. They do seem to be getting creakier and creakier.

Time to move on from them for good perhaps.

[Krikkit]

Big leak indeed: https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1603213...

[eliot]

Scott Manley just published a video on it

[Beati Dogu]

I hear that Dmitry Rogozin, who was head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos until July was injured by a Ukrainian artillery strike. He was in a restaurant in Donetsk, celebrating his 59th birthday when the building was hit. He’s got shrapnel damage, but is expected to survive. Unfortunately.

Update:

“Rogozin was wounded in the groin area and may lose his childbearing organ - media”

Ouch.

https://www.dialog.ua/war/264774_1671761195

Edited by Beati Dogu on Saturday 24th December 00:01

[Beati Dogu]

The Russian movie “The Challenge”, which was partially filmed on the ISS is out in April. They’ve released a trailer for it recently:



Nice footage of the Soyuz launch at the end.

[Byker28i]

The Russian space agency said Wednesday that its Soyuz spacecraft needs to return to Earth from the International Space Station without a crew, confirming it was hit by a small meteorite strike.

A NASA image shows liquid spraying from the damaged Soyuz spacecraft


Russia will then send another unmanned Soyuz rocket on February 20 to bring a crew back from the International Space Station.