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Russian Supply Rocket Malfunctions, Breaks Up Over Siberia En Route To ISS (npr.org)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: An unmanned cargo rocket bound for the International Space Station was destroyed after takeoff on Thursday. The Russian rocket took off as planned from Baikonur, Kazahkstan, on Thursday morning but stopped transmitting data about six minutes into its flight, as NPR's Rae Ellen Bichell reported: "'Russian officials say the spacecraft failed [...] when it was about 100 miles above a remote part of Siberia. The ship was carrying more than 2 1/2 tons of supplies -- including food, fuel and clothes. Most of that very likely burned up as the unmanned spacecraft fell back toward Earth. NASA says the six crew members on board the International Space station, including two Americans, are well stocked for now.'" This is the fourth botched launch of an unmanned Russian rocket in the past two years. Roscomos officials wrote in an update today: "According to preliminary information, the contingency took place at an altitude of about 190 km over remote and unpopulated mountainous area of the Republic of Tyva. The most of cargo spacecraft fragments burned in the dense atmosphere. The State Commission is conducting analysis of the current contingency. The loss of the cargo ship will not affect the normal operations of the ISS and the life of the station crew."
at 190km they can't have been that far away from being pretty safe?
I wonder if the alt-right/SJW hunting guys will be as critical of the Russians as they are of SpaceX.
Cognitive dissonance is always entertaining... for a limited time.
Another consultant who stuck it out.
"We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx..."
I wonder if the Russians caused problems with Elon's rocket and this is payback?
Even when new (Kursk) it fails.
Apparently, it was rather Tuva and bust .
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I happened to be watch the post-launch coverage of this launch. The images were taken inside the Russian Command Center near Moscow and showing the orbital graphics on the room's main monitor. The NASA reporter mentioned that the "telemetry after launch was reported to be fuzzy" and he was told the third-stage booster shut off / ejected early.
BASIC astrophysics: it's the horizontal velocity that matters. If it were not for obstacles and atmospheric drag slowing you down, you could orbit the Earth at 5000 feet. You can certainly orbit the moon (which has essentially no atmosphere) or any similar body at any altitude.
During WWII German V-2 Rockets flew to as high as 206 km (128 miles) which is space, but they never had even a third of the horizontal velocity to achieve orbit. It's that horizontal speed which causes things reentering the atmosphere to heat up and burn, and the lack of that horizontal speed is why V-2 rockets, Spaceship One, Spaceship Two, and the Red Bull parachutist could all plunge back to Earth from space without heat shields.
To orbit the Earth, you must be going "sideways" so fast that as the Earth's gravity pulls your trajectory "down" (towards the center of the Earth) you've moved "sideways" far enough for the Earth's curvature to equal that bent trajectory. That's about 14500MPH for low Earth orbit. Most rockets burn an enormous amount of fuel initially getting off the pad and climbing vertically to get up out of the thick lower atmosphere quickly, but then execute a "gravity turn" in the upper atmosphere so that they then spend most of their fuel thereafter building up the great horizontal velocity needed to achieve orbit. This Soyuz apparently had a third stage failure, so it was plenty high but unable to continue accelerating to orbital velocity - it was doomed the moment the third stage either shut down or failed to ignite.
...I'd wonder if the cargo was actually inside.
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Do they salvage the lost cargo? 2 1/2 tons of stuff has got to be worth something.
Every time I read about something like this I'm just so glad it was only a supply ship. I'm sure it must be stressful for the crew on the ISS to hear about this.
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Most unusual, since he makes hundreds of posts about how manned space travel is doomed and pointless.
But apparently Russian rockets are of no interest to him. If it had been a SpaceX rocket, he would have spammed this topic with dozens of gleeful posts.
Maybe binary man is Russian?
NASA has, perhaps rightly so, cautious about utilizing private space transport contractors. You know, all that need to see reliability. While the Russians (essentially a private contractor at this point) have a good record overall, I'd like to see a comparison over the last 5 years. What is the success to failure rate for Roscosmos, SpaceX, Nasa (ULA), etc...?
it's blow things up real good! I'm talking about the ones you never heard about.
According to the internal sources, Russians forgot to unload nuclear warhead from this cargo rocket. When the rocket was on it's way and they realized that the payload will be available to the US astronauts, they just pulled the self destruction leveler.
According to different sources, the Russian Defense minister Shoygu, who is from Tuva, used this cargo rocket, basically a boondoggle, to deliver some Kremlin party food leftovers to his relatives in Tuva, common thing in Russia. Location (Tuva) and occasion (Trump victory party in Kremlin) appear to confirming the story.
what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
And the real indignity was it wasn't that funny.
So my tomcat was scratching around in the catbox over by the storage bay, and now it's just a big cloud of clay dust. It's says it's clumping litter on the box, but it's just not working.
"Just pee in your suit" I told him.
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There is no ISS space station, it is all CGI graphics, just go to nasa.gov, and adjust the color levels using OSX Preview on some pictures which are really obvious cgi