[amsat-bb] Soyuz launch failure. Crew safe!

[Ray Hoad]

Is that health status of crew members?

Raymond Hoad
WA5QGD

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From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Alan
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 20:55
To: 'B J' <va6bmj at gmail.com>; 'Burns Fisher' <burns at fisher.cc>
Cc: 'AMSAT BB' <amsat-bb at amsat.org>; 'Alan Biddle' <APBIDDLE at mailaps.org>
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Soyuz launch failure. Crew safe!

Extra points if you can identify the source and purpose of the CW which you
can hear in the background.  Mostly the letters A,N and at least one S.  Or
more likely the Cyrillic equivalent.

73,

Alan
WA4SCA


<-----Original Message-----
<From: B J [mailto:va6bmj at gmail.com]
<Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 20:46 PM
<To: Burns Fisher <burns at fisher.cc>
<Cc: Alan Biddle <APBIDDLE at mailaps.org>; AMSAT BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
<Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Soyuz launch failure. Crew safe!
<
<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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