.jpg) Launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the MS-10 spacecraft | |
| Mission type | ISS crew transport (planned) |
|---|---|
| Operator | Roscosmos |
| Mission duration | 19 minutes, 41 seconds (achieved) 180 days (planned) |
| Orbits completed | Failed to orbit |
| Apogee | 93 km (58 mi) sub-orbital spaceflight |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Soyuz MS No. 740 |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS (11F747) |
| Manufacturer | Energia |
| Crew | |
| Members | |
| Callsign | Burlak |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 11 October 2018, 08:40 UTC |
| Rocket | Soyuz-FG (U15000-064) |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Pad 1/5 |
| Contractor | Progress |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 11 October 2018, 08:59 UTC |
| Landing site | 20 km (12 mi) east of Jezkazgan, Kazakhstan |
 Hague and Ovchinin | |
Soyuz MS-10 was a crewed Soyuz MS spaceflight that aborted shortly after launch on 11 October 2018[1][2] due to a failure of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle boosters.[3][4] MS-10 was the 139th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. It was intended to transport two members of the Expedition 57 crew to the International Space Station. A few minutes after liftoff, the craft went into contingency abort due to a booster failure and had to return to Earth. By the time the contingency abort was declared, the launch escape system (LES) tower had already been ejected and the capsule was pulled away from the rocket using the solid rocket jettison motors on the capsule fairing.[5] Both crew members, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague, were recovered in good health.[3] The MS-10 flight abort was the first instance of a Russian crewed booster accident in 35 years, since Soyuz T-10-1 exploded on the launch pad in September 1983.[6][7][8] On 1 November 2018, Russian scientists released a video recording of the mission.[9]
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- ^ Pietrobon, Steven (5 February 2017). "Russian Launch Manifest". Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ a b Garcia, Mark (11 October 2018). "Crew in Good Condition After Booster Failure". NASA Space Station. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ Harwood, William (11 October 2018). "Soyuz crew lands safely after emergency launch abort". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
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- ^ Zak, Anatoly. "History of Soyuz Escape System". RussianSpaceWeb.com. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ Evans, Ben (28 September 2013). "'We Were Swearing!' Thirty Years Since Russia's Brush With Disaster". AmericaSpace.
- ^ Berger, Eric (1 November 2018). "Dramatic footage of Soyuz accident shows rocket booster collision – For the second human launch in a row, there's a likely quality control issue". Ars Technica. Retrieved 1 November 2018.