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Its raining toilet rolls!
Or to put it another way, I hear the Progress did not make orbit.
Brian -- Brian Gaff - Note:- In order to reduce spam, any email without 'Brian Gaff' in the display name may be lost. Blind user, so no pictures please! |
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Its raining toilet rolls!
Am 25.08.2011 10:54, schrieb Brian Gaff:
Or to put it another way, I hear the Progress did not make orbit. Brian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEABgEozZXM at the end .. 7-) servus markus |
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Its raining toilet rolls!
On 26/08/2011 3:25 AM, markus baur wrote:
Am 25.08.2011 10:54, schrieb Brian Gaff: Or to put it another way, I hear the Progress did not make orbit. Brian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEABgEozZXM at the end .. 7-) servus markus Dark Star - great movie. Love the beachball 'alien' and the guy at the end surfing into the atmosphere. |
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Its raining toilet rolls!
Hmm, OK I was of course joking when i said toilet rolls as you cannot use
such things in microgravity, put that down to my whacky UK humour. However hopefully the issue will be located fairly fast. Seems a long time into the flight to only still fall in Russia, but unfortunately no matter how careful one is, failures do still occur in hardware. I guess one needs to find out what that was, check the other items that are the same of similar, look at if anything has been altered in the recent history, and gain some insight into the cause that way. The smoking gun approach is going to be a bit awkward if all you have is a pile of broken bits. Hopefully telementry will point an accusing fingerr at a valve or sensor or maybe even a controller issue. After all much of these things have redundanncy, except of course and engine itself which is rather an unlikely problem area these days assuming no changes of course. Brian -- Brian Gaff - Note:- In order to reduce spam, any email without 'Brian Gaff' in the display name may be lost. Blind user, so no pictures please! "JF Mezei" wrote in message eb.com... The manifest of the Progress 44 was: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/582429main_p...s_manifest.pdf They have an article about the crash: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st...44_launch.html ## The ISS Progress 44 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 9 a.m. EDT (7 p.m. Kazakhstan time) August 24 on a Soyuz U rocket, bound for the International Space Station. At 5 minutes and 25 seconds into flight, the Soyuz rocket experienced a third-stage engine shutdown due to an anomaly. Given the trajectory and energy, the Progress did not reach orbit and landed in the Altai Region of Russia. ## ## There has never been a Progress loss during the International Space Station Program. As of August 2011, the Russian Space Agency had launched 745 Soyuz-U launch vehicles. There have been 21 launch failures and 724 successes ## If I understand correctly, 1st stage are the engines around the main tube. They go away like SRBs on shuttle, and the 2ns stage is an engine under the main tube. 3rd stage would be an engine on the main tube after the bottom portion of the tube separates. Is that accurate ? NASA says it landed in the Altai Region of Russia. My buddy Mr Google says it is not far from the the Kazakhstan border (north east border between Kazakhstan and Russia). Definitely not "Eastern Russia" as BBC stated. Maybe Mr Google is wrong. |
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