FAILURE: Soyuz-FG - Soyuz MS-10 - October 11, 2018 - Baikonur (UPDATES)

[SciNews]

replay from NASA

[catdlr]

Launch of Soyuz MS-10

A different view than above, Check the video at 2:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQlj73NIm4?t=001

[Chris Bergin]

SAR has contact with the crew. They are alive and have landed.

[b0objunior]

SAR has contact with the crew. They are alive and have landed.

Good news!!!

[Steven Pietrobon]

Landed 20 km east of Tsacheztan (spelling incorrect!).

[lucspace]

At first glance, it looks like one of the boosters cuts out early... an asymmetrical booster sep follows...

[owais.usmani]

Its really good to know that Soyuz has the capability to ensure the safe return of its crew in case of a failure at any point of the entire ascent profile. Waiting for visuals of crew being extracted from the capsule in good health and condition!

[avollhar]

Is it only me or does the rocket seemed to go sideways after booster sep? Guidance then wrestled it back to prograde again..

[Steven Pietrobon]

Search and rescue are now about one hour from landing location.

[orbitaldebris]

I meant the 1975 abort was much higher energy than today's (which happened at strap-on separation)

Strap-on separation? I thought the abort occurred after second and third stage separation, just like today's abort?

Today's abort was right at the lateral blocks separation, into Block A's main burn.

You're right of course. Got the stage numbers mixed up. I wonder what went wrong then, nothing much happens with the core stage after the strap-ons separate right? Just a coincidence that the core shut down right then, or some sort of strap-on separation anomaly?

[eeergo]

Launch of Soyuz MS-10


A different view than above, Check the video at 2:20

Thanks!

Clearly a deflagration of some sort, probably connected to the piece that separated from the stack a couple of seconds earlier. Escape tower should have jettisoned 40 seconds later precisely at that time so the abort should have happened in its low high-altitude mode.

[catdlr]

Launch of Soyuz MS-10

A different view than above, Check the video at 2:20

Here is a clip and close up of the failure point

[Joey S-IVB]

From Anatoly Zak, spelling of area is Dzhezkzagan, in Kazakhstan

[SciNews]

NASA: Teams have confirmed the crew have landed and Nick Hague and Aleksey Ovchinin are in good condition. Search and rescue teams have been deployed to the landing site and are in contact with the crew.

[Thor7]

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1050318439427047424

[Steven Pietrobon]

Flight Director is Mary Lawrence.

[catdlr]

From Anatoly Zak, spelling of area is Dzhezkzagan, in Kazakhstan

Dzhezkzagan

[Thor7]

https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1050319614629093376

[eeergo]

Launch of Soyuz MS-10

A different view than above, Check the video at 2:20

If you look closely at precisely 2:20 in the video you see the first object departing the stack, although it's less obvious than in the NASA TV feed. Four seconds later the boosters cut off (nominally) and about a second later the deflagration starts.

EDIT: Looks like this was the nominal escape tower jettison!

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/Rogozin/status/1050318547438714880

Auto-translation:

To find out the reason for the accident on the SOYUZ-FG ph My decision was formed by the state Commission. She's already started her Work. Telemetry is Studied. Rescue services work from the first second of the Accident. The Soyuz-ms emergency Rescue system Worked. The crew is Saved.