Soyuz comms dropout


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Expect another investigation as to why the Soyuz comms were lost for a whole 15 minutes at a critical point in last nights return flight from the ISS.

This is already spurring renewed calls to increase funding for NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) so Dragon, CST-100 & Dream Chaser can be accelerated.

Disconery News....

MYSTERY COMMS BLACKOUT BLIGHTS RETURNING ISS TRIO

Three of the International Space Station?s live-aboard staff returned to Earth Thursday night, leaving a skeleton crew in orbit until replacements arrive in mid-November.

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An unexplained communications loss left flight controllers unable to speak with the crew during the last 15 minutes of their descent. The first indication that the capsule survived its fiery plunge through the atmosphere was a series of beeps signaling components of the Soyuz had been jettisoned as planned.

Later, ground controllers picked up signals that the Soyuz?s parachutes had deployed, but it wasn?t until a Russian recovery aircraft established two-way radio communications with the crew that flight controllers knew all was well.

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I can't believe we're relying on Russian technology to get people to and from space now. May as well call up ACME and order some of those rockets that Wile E. Coyote always bought. They'd probably be more reliable.

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It's not just spacecraft. There have been many failures of tech left over from the Soviet days; airliners, ferries, trains, ships, etc., and it's causing a huge stink over there that's becoming a big political issue. They can't keep their new aeronautical & other engineers because their facilities are antiquated and funding short, so there's a brain-drain to boot.

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come on Russia, you were a shining beacon of science and ingenuity for so long, now it's looking more like Singularity (for anyone who's played the game). i kid, but really, i expect more from our previously-Soviet brothers.

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Being in space is Very expensive and dangerous so lets just cut all of our funding and see how they do..... ********.

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Not meaning to be heartless here, but it did a better job than Space Shuttle Columbia. :(

2 shuttles lost in 135 launches over 30 years isn't exactly bad (though any loss of life is terrible).

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And they were lucky that there were only two. Several flights came back with significant heat shield damage due to foam shedding and other issues.

You should have seen the faces on the Columbia review board when they saw a chunk of foam totally shred the leading edge segment of a shuttle wing after hearing weeks of testimony as to how it could't happen :p

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