December 15, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of Jay, BtB’s stringer. All the links today have to do with the Soyuz capsule that is leaking on ISS.
- Russians forced to use U.S. communications system because Russian channel broke down
The data was conveying information about the Soyuz leak. The words used by Dmitry Strugovets, the former head of Roscosmos press service, to describe the failure are not safe for this website. :)
- Details about the leaking coolant are described here and here.
The second link provides a description of the cooling system that is leaking. It appears the leaking material could be water, or “Isooctan LZ-TK-2”.
- If a replacement capsule is required, the Russians could launch the next Soyuz capsule empty
That next Soyuz, dubbed MS-23, is scheduled for a March launch, with a crew. If the capsule is sent empty, Russia would use the next Soyuz, MS-24 for that mission.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Courtesy of Jay, BtB’s stringer. All the links today have to do with the Soyuz capsule that is leaking on ISS.
- Russians forced to use U.S. communications system because Russian channel broke down
The data was conveying information about the Soyuz leak. The words used by Dmitry Strugovets, the former head of Roscosmos press service, to describe the failure are not safe for this website. :)
- Details about the leaking coolant are described here and here.
The second link provides a description of the cooling system that is leaking. It appears the leaking material could be water, or “Isooctan LZ-TK-2”.
- If a replacement capsule is required, the Russians could launch the next Soyuz capsule empty
That next Soyuz, dubbed MS-23, is scheduled for a March launch, with a crew. If the capsule is sent empty, Russia would use the next Soyuz, MS-24 for that mission.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The capsule is to be removed? The living compartment actually docked is rather inert-and designed to be shed anyway-a plus here.