A couple of things.
First, a short video from Roscosmos of a Soyuz booster leaving its assembly barn for a short rail journey to its pad, it's arrival and its being raised from horizontal to vertical. Scheduled for launch July 5 to loft a Meteor M weather satellite. The Russian text says that this is Baikonur East, but it's definitely not the Kazakhstan desert, judging from the surrounding forests. So I'm assuming that it's Vostochny in the Russian far east.
https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/114...4661761025
And here's a 2 minute video showing today's AA-2 abort test for NASA's new Orion capsule. Kind of redundant in my opinion, given SpaceX's Crew Dragon and Boeing's Starliner. Does America really need three capsules? This is potentially the best of the bunch, though it's years behind schedule. The little booster fires off, rises, then the capsule's abort rockets fire separating the capsule from the booster.
This kind of system is what saved the lives of those two astronauts whose Soyuz came apart last year.
https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/stat...0741919744
First, a short video from Roscosmos of a Soyuz booster leaving its assembly barn for a short rail journey to its pad, it's arrival and its being raised from horizontal to vertical. Scheduled for launch July 5 to loft a Meteor M weather satellite. The Russian text says that this is Baikonur East, but it's definitely not the Kazakhstan desert, judging from the surrounding forests. So I'm assuming that it's Vostochny in the Russian far east.
https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/114...4661761025
And here's a 2 minute video showing today's AA-2 abort test for NASA's new Orion capsule. Kind of redundant in my opinion, given SpaceX's Crew Dragon and Boeing's Starliner. Does America really need three capsules? This is potentially the best of the bunch, though it's years behind schedule. The little booster fires off, rises, then the capsule's abort rockets fire separating the capsule from the booster.
This kind of system is what saved the lives of those two astronauts whose Soyuz came apart last year.
https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/stat...0741919744