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

[Paul Stoetzer]

Descent module recovery beacon.

http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Soyuz1Land/SoyRadio.htm

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 21:54 Alan <wa4sca at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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