[amsat-bb] Soyuz launch failure. Crew safe!
B J
va6bmj at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 01:45:43 UTC 2018
On 10/12/18, Burns Fisher <burns at fisher.cc> wrote:
> Did you see the video from the cockpit and the long-range camera? It was
> pretty clear something happened as the boosters fell off. WAY too much
> stuff falling to be just the boosters. And the picture in the cockpit
> shows the cosmonauts vibrating around like crazy. The NASA commentator did
> not say anything, and then the animation kept showing the velocity going up
> and up while you heard on the air-to-ground link "we are weightless now".
<snip>
I noticed that as well. I would have expected that, normally, the
boosters would have been jettisoned symmetrically and fall away in a
star pattern.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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