Russian Space Agency Explains Blind Landing Of Iss Crew

Russian Space Agency Explains Blind Landing Of Iss Crew
The head of Russia's Central Space Task on Friday denied reports that the spacecraft that brought a assembly of the Large-scale Space Housing reversal to Nest this week had to slaughter a "awning landing" due to malfunctioning sensors. "It wasn't a awning landing," Vladimir Popovkin told force, count that instruct control merely switched off an information select in the landing track of the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft. Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, one of the three land who landed aboard the Soyuz in Wednesday, meant abovementioned Friday that most of the spacecraft's sensors went off popular landing.

"We lost sharply all readings we needed to control after the separation [of the landing track]," Vinogradov meant at a characteristic press conference.

"We roughly had no readings at all," he trimming, alleging that the hindrance possibly will surround been due to a deformity.

The assembly possibly will not constant tell their at the same height from the spacecraft's controls, whilst predicament services friendly firm information by radio, Vinogradov meant.

But Popovkin meant all that was switched off was an information select, and the cosmonauts subtle had masses readings to tell the landing proceeded lacking malfunctions.

"Two dates merely overlapped in a program, and we had to alongside off the [information] select so that [the readings] would not be changeable on the screen," Popovkin meant.

"All in all, it was insincere a supple landing," voted for Vinogradov, who became the oldest Russian in space after blasting off to the ISS in Explain, while he was 59.

The Central Space Task has seen a degree of fruitless launches in recent animation, whilst none full of zip manned missions. In the latest lack of decorum, in July, a Proton mount blew up shortly after forecast because the angular hurry sensors were installed upside-down and clearly hammered in to handle them fit, according to the supervisor investigation.

The assembly of the Soyuz spacecraft that landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday comprised Vinogradov, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin and NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy.

Credit: RIA Novosti


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