[FPSPACE] FW: Possible Soyuz module separation problem under scrutiny

[LARRY KLAES]

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>Subject: Possible Soyuz module separation problem under scrutiny
>Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:15:59 -0400
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>POSSIBLE SOYUZ MODULE SEPARATION PROBLEM UNDER SCRUTINY
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>While NASA managers await the results of a Russian engineering analysis to
>determine what went wrong during a returning Soyuz capsule's steep,
>off-course descent from the international space station Saturday, space
>experts around the world are discussing what may have been a much more
>serious problem than initially believed.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp16/080422descent.html
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>MARS RADAR SOUNDING OPENS UP PLANET'S THIRD DIMENSION
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>The European Space Agency's Mars Express radar sounder, MARSIS, has looked
>beneath the martian surface and opened up the third dimension for
>planetary exploration. The technique's success is prompting scientists to
>think of all the other places in the Solar System where they would like to
>use radar sounders.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0804/22marsexpress/
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>CAUSE OF LAST MONTH'S PROTON FAILURE DETERMINED
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>The Russian State Commission investigating the AMC-14 failure of a Proton
>Breeze M launch has traced the cause to the rupture of the gas duct
>between the gas generator and the propellant pump turbine in the Breeze M
>main engine.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/amc14/080421report.html
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>FIRST SATELLITE FOR VIETNAM, ANOTHER FOR BRAZIL LAUNCHED
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>Continuing what is supposed to be a banner year with an unprecedented
>flight rate, the commercial Ariane 5 rocket launched again Friday night,
>lofting a Brazilian broadcast satellite and Vietnam's first communications
>spacecraft.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/ariane/v182/
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>href="http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp16/080422descent.html">POSSIBLE 
>SOYUZ MODULE SEPARATION PROBLEM UNDER SCRUTINY</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0804/22marsexpress/">MARS RADAR 
>SOUNDING OPENS UP PLANET'S THIRD DIMENSION</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/amc14/080421report.html">CAUSE OF 
>LAST MONTH'S PROTON FAILURE DETERMINED</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/ariane/v182/">FIRST SATELLITE FOR 
>VIETNAM, ANOTHER FOR BRAZIL LAUNCHED</a>
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