Damage at Baikonur after Soyuz launch: Russia can't send people to space
12 days ago
- #Space
- #Soyuz
- #Russia
- Damage at Baikonur cosmodrome after Soyuz MS-28 launch.
- Service cabin collapsed; launch infrastructure significantly damaged.
- Launch pad 31 is the only one in Russia for manned ISS missions.
- Metal structure found in gas exhaust tray, indicating a major incident.
- Russia temporarily unable to launch people into space, first since 1961.
- Soyuz and Progress spacecraft launches to ISS now impossible indefinitely.
- No official response from Roscosmos yet.