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Russian Space Agency Determines Cause of Soyuz Crash
An anonymous reader writes "The online version of the San Francisco Chronicle reports the cause of the loss of a Soyuz rocket in August. The Russian Space Agency, ROSCOSMOS says a manufacturing flaw led to the failure of a gas generator."
A Progress was the payload. The rocket is called Soyuz. (As are the payloads that carry humans.)
Uh-huh. Because every other economic system produces highly reliable, cheap goods.
I think you mean "welcome to reality"
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
Orders came down from the top (Medvedev, likely speaking for Putin) to find the problem. That means that a problem needs to be found and some sort of action taken. Now, it's entirely possible that the engineers looked over the data and were able to pinpoint the problem. However, it is also entirely possible that the engineers did not have enough data to figure out the problem in a reasonable timeframe, so "management" asked them to brainstorm a few hypotheses, picked something that sounded plausible and did not put blame on anyone, and presented that as the problem to the top brass. In either case, more specific information is unlikely. If the engineers actually identified the prlblem, you aren't likely to hear much because Russia doesn't like to publicize her failures, especially in something as high profile and high tech as the space program. If the engineers did not identify the problem, you will not hear any more details simply because there are no more details.