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

[Alan]

That is probably it.  It does appear on the Russian Mission Control channel long before (as in minutes) there is any indication of a problem.  As with any significant incident, the final picture will turn out to be more complicated, and this may well be a clue.

73,

Alan
WA4SCA


<-----Original Message-----
<From: Mike Diehl [mailto:diehl.mike.a at gmail.com]
<Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 22:10 PM
<To: APBIDDLE at MAILAPS.ORG
<Cc: B J <va6bmj at gmail.com>; Burns Fisher <burns at fisher.cc>; AMSAT BB
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<Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Soyuz launch failure. Crew safe!
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<Here you go.
<http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Soyuz1Land/SoyRadio.htm
<
<
<73,
<Mike Diehl
<W8LID/VE6LID
<
<On Oct 11, 2018, at 21:54, Alan <wa4sca at gmail.com
<<mailto: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
<
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<	<-----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 <mailto:burns at fisher.cc> >
<	<Cc: Alan Biddle <APBIDDLE at mailaps.org
<<mailto:APBIDDLE at mailaps.org> >; AMSAT BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org
<<mailto:amsat-bb at amsat.org> >
<	<Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Soyuz launch failure. Crew safe!
<	<
<	<On 10/12/18, Burns Fisher <burns at fisher.cc
<<mailto: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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