Onboard camera view of the Soyuz MS-10 launch and in-flight abort on 11 October 2018. According to the commission that investigated the incident, a faulty sensor damaged during assembly caused the abnormal separation of one of the side boosters, that hit the central booster. This led to depressurization of the central booster and the loss of stabilization of the rocket. The Soyuz MS-10 capsule returned in a ballistic decent mode and the crew members, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, were safely recovered.
NASA is moving forward with plans to take the International Space Station out of orbit in 2031 and crash it into the Pacific Ocean, according to the space agency’s International Space Station Transition Report released Monday. NASA explained the ISS will continue operating through 2030 in order to maintain a United States presence in space until private industry operators develop commercial replacements.
One of five motors malfunctioned at liftoff, leaving the vehicle short of the net thrust needed to reach the correct altitude. The vehicle is still a prototype, but this is the fifth failure thus far.
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