Comments on: Review of all Soyuz upper stages ordered by Russian manufacturer https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/review-of-all-soyuz-upper-stages-ordered-by-russian-manufacturer/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 01:53:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/review-of-all-soyuz-upper-stages-ordered-by-russian-manufacturer/#comment-1027239 Fri, 01 Dec 2017 01:53:41 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48978#comment-1027239 LocalFluff,
Thank you for that link. What a nice display. Putting the mouse on them gives the identity, and I found a few representing geostationary satellites that I worked on. Clicking on one gives orbital information. What a fun link.

]]> By: Kirk https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/review-of-all-soyuz-upper-stages-ordered-by-russian-manufacturer/#comment-1027008 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:14:35 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48978#comment-1027008 Anatoly Zak is reporting an embarrassing suspected cause for Tuesday’s Soyuz failure — that the Fregat upper stage “did not have the correct settings for the mission originating from the new launch site in Vostochny, as apposed to routine launches from Baikonur and Plesetsk. As a result, as soon as Fregat and its cargo separated from the third stage of the launch vehicle, its flight control system began commanding a change of orientation of the stack to compensate for what the computer had perceived as a deviation from the correct attitude, which was considerable.”

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/meteor-m2-1.html#culprit

]]> By: LocalFluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/review-of-all-soyuz-upper-stages-ordered-by-russian-manufacturer/#comment-1026924 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:49:21 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48978#comment-1026924 I’ve found this database over space debris and satellites and graphics of their current location and orbit. The yellow ones are simply called “objects”. The latest Fregat hasn’t been listed yet, it seems. I haven’t noticed the domain name “.space” before.
http://www.stuffin.space/

]]> By: Mark https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/review-of-all-soyuz-upper-stages-ordered-by-russian-manufacturer/#comment-1026897 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 06:21:18 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48978#comment-1026897 Will this investigation delay any further launches from Russia this year? Would that mean that SpaceX wins the race for most launches?

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