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Anatoly Zak
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Anatoly Zak writes RussianSpaceWeb.com, a personal blog at russianspaceweb.com about science and history. Since 2010, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “Soyuz MS-10 makes emergency landing after a launch failure”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
History and news on the Russian space program by Anatoly Zak | Editor: Alain Chabot
Most-linked posts?
- /proton_glonass49.html5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-07-10
- /proton_glonass49.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-12
- /is.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-15
- Soyuz MS-10 makes emergency landing after a launch failure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-11
What Hacker News says?
From a quick search their main RCS is still a dimethylhydrazine which is quite toxic. They're just on the engine part of the craft instead of on the capsule so it doesn't come down to Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTDU-80#Pneumatic_Pressurizati... http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-ms-kdu.html
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on “SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit”Submitted Angara-5 to become Russia's biggest rocket as a story · 69 points
HN discussionI agree with your interpretation of the tape audio, but the 'ballistic trajectory' statements from Roscosmos/NASA tell us that it was not rocket-powered. Indications are that the anomaly happened at booster sep, which is a few seconds after LES jettison. http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz_launch.html
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on “Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket”Submitted History of Russian Spacecrafts as a story · 32 points
HN discussionIn that one the gyroscopes (all 3 of them) were installed upside-down, and what's truly facepalm-worthy was that the guy who did that decided to force them into place: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/proton_glonass49.html investigators simulated the improper installation of the DUS angular velocity sensors on the actual hardware. As it turned out, it would be very difficult to do but not impossible. To achieve that p…
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on “Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff”Submitted Russia's only pad for crew launches suffers major damage as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSometimes that is not enough: In this rocket malfunction, a part was installed upside down. It had arrows indicating the direction and only fit in its place in one orientation. Still, on finding that it didn't immediately fit a technician forced it in: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/proton_glonass49.html#culprit By July 13, investigators simulated the improper installation of the DUS angular velocity sensors on the…
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on “Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure”Submitted Russia reveals a formidable nuclear-powered space tug as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThe Soviets also transferred the entire rocket manufacturing line from Germany to USSR http://www.russianspaceweb.com/rockets_ussr_germany.html
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on “Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR (2018)”Submitted The RD-250 rocket engine at the center of an international storm as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe first soft landing on the moon in January 1966 by Luna 9 was like that: https://www.russianspaceweb.com/luna9.html (has a picture of the landing profile) With the landing probe encased in airbags ejecting from the main body a couple meter above ground. The probe the rolled for a bit, once it stopped it then opened up and started doing science.
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on “Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon”Submitted Russian Space Web: Nedelin's disaster (1960) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's very impressive. The Russians also fixed the insulation on their Proton rocket carrying Spektr-RG with some glue and launched a day later! They had to wait a month after the previous problem, however, which required a battery replacement: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spektr-rg-launch.html
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on “India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try”Submitted Soyuz MS-10 makes emergency landing after a launch failure (video of failure) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionApparently a 1.5mm puncture due to a meteor/debris strike in the Russian Soyuz MS-09 module. More information: http://blogs.esa.int/alexander-gerst/2018/08/30/slow-leak-de... https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7... http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-ms-09.html#leak
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on “Slow leak detected aboard Space Station”Submitted Soyuz MS-10 makes emergency landing after a launch failure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe Soviets run a whole program of satellite interceptors in the 60s: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/is.html It was a maneuverable satellite designed to destroy an enemy satellite by collision. They even launched a special armored satellite that could be used as a target for multiple test interceptions.
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on “UK and US say Russia fired a satellite weapon in space”Submitted Soyuz MS-10 makes emergency landing after a launch failure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMore on this informative site by a Russian space geek now living in the US: http://russianspaceweb.com/soyuz1.html
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on “Vladimir Komarov went on a space suicide mission to save his best friend, Yuri”Submitted US tracks disintegration of a mysterious Russian satellite in orbit as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"the onus is on you" I don't see why. "there's a wide array of reasonable measures" I don't see how they address the problem. "They're much better tailored to limit the value of the Chinese nuclear deterrent than yours" I don't see why. "I wish your military invested in better early warning capabilities" Your wish is granted [0] "Your existing arsenal easily suffices for credible deterrence" Only if it survives the…
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on “How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster”Submitted Russia goes ahead with the development of the next-generation spacecraft as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe Soviets had and the Russians still have anti-ICBM missiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-35_anti-ballistic_missile_sy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-135_anti-ballistic_missile_s... Killer satellites were developed starting in the 60s and deployed operationally in 1991. It seems reasonable to think that some pre-operational capability might have existed in 1988: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/is.html I'm n…
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on “Nuclear Test Films Declassified and Uploaded”Already done 40+ years ago by Soviet Russia - the Salyut-3 carried a self-defence gun that fired in orbit called the Almaz Space Cannon : https://www.russianspaceweb.com/almaz_ops2.html
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on “A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal”Hello, I'm Paolo Attivissimo, the poster of the original article. I am using the "Lunokhod" spelling because this is the spelling used by NASA and many other reference sources, including Anatoly Zak's RussianSpaceWeb http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_planetary_lunar.ht...
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on “Expert help needed to decode rare piece of space history: Lunokhod data tapes”I don't think you have enough space for rockets to launch without parts potentially landing on people. Even the Russians end up dropping spent stages in areas that aren't entirely empty: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/baikonur_downrange.html
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on “NASA Is Facing a Climate Change Countdown”I think it's fair to say that Anatoly Zak did it. I've never seen it before, but look at all the renderings on http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ (browse around). I would even guess that he shopped around first printing of it and they picked it up, that they didn't commission it.
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on “In 1975, the USSR fired a cannon from an orbiting space station”Of course, rocket built in Russia 25 years after the USSR dissolution is Russian rocket even if it's an upgraded version [0] of Soviet design. And there is nothing about people, nationality or ethnicity in my comment, just the name of country which built and launched the rocket. [0] http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz2_lv.html
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on “A Soviet test pilot ejected two seconds before the crash of his MiG-29 (2019)”I don't see what point you are trying to make. Russia has almost completely replaced obsolete Soviet electronics of both Soyuz spacecraft and Soyuz rocket with modern tech. http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz2-1a.html http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-ms.html
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on “A Soviet test pilot ejected two seconds before the crash of his MiG-29 (2019)”The second attempt at docking Dragon was successful: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/834716206930108416 Progress MS-05, the first russian resupply mission after the failed Progress MS-04, should arrive tomorrow, February 24th: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/progress-ms-05.html
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on “SpaceX Dragon Rendezvous and Docking Waved Off for Today”
