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Russian Space Agency Determines Cause of Soyuz Crash

Posted by samzenpus on from the launch-once-measure-twice dept.

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."

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  1. This is good news. by conspirator23 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In fact it is better and faster news than many people feared. It suggests a by-the-numbers path to return the Soyuz to service. In turn, this dramatically lowers the risk that we will need to evacuate the ISS and suffer any negative consequences associated with that.

    (We now return you to this thread's excessively random spew.)

  2. Re:That was not Soyuz, it was Progress - space tru by clj · · Score: 5, Informative

    A Progress was the payload. The rocket is called Soyuz. (As are the payloads that carry humans.)