Russian Progress Supply Ship Spinning Out of Control *Realtime Simulation of the Spacecraft and its Orbit!

Moscow, we have vodka

well that gives them a challenge. I wonder if the ET's are involved and its just some kind of test...

that suck dude, hopefully they can regain control of it.

Im sure those supplies are much needed.

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Rogue squirrel. Running the wrong direction and throwing off the gyro. They need to vet these squirrels better.

So i guess its lost?

What happens then? Reentry?

Is it gonna give someone a really bad day?

As Brief would say... "Squish"

They are very much needed, especially since the shortfall caused by the explosion of the Antares rocket in October.

That rocket was also using refurbished Soviet rocket engines. Yes, Soviet, not even Russian. They're descendents of the failed N-1 moon rocket. They look good on paper for efficiency, but the N-1 never had a single successful launch, which is why the Soviets lost the moon race and gave up. The surplus engines were left in a warehouse until Aerojet bought them following the fall of the Soviet Union. They were refurbished and used as relatively cheap engines for the Antares rocket. Well, we can see how well that plan worked...

Last Edited by Astromut on 04/28/2015 11:49 AM

Yup, only without a human occupant to stop the spin in this case. Without the ability to keep the solar arrays properly pointed at the sun I'm guessing the cargo ship's batteries are probably already dead.

Uncontrolled re-entry at some point if they don't regain control. Space-track doesn't even have the orbital elements up yet for this launch, so I don't know what its altitude currently is or how long it will likely remain in orbit if control is never regained. I'd love to track it with my scope if I could, but unfortunately my scope's motherboard has experienced a failure due to a short which has taken out my ability to control it for satellite tracking. I'm working on getting repair parts but I wouldn't be surprised if this thing burns up before I'm back up and running.

Could this out of control rocket smash into any satellites?

Did nasa award SpaceX with a few resupply missions for 2015? Why aren't they using them, instead of these bunk soviet rockets?

simple fix. Send that tug boat up there they use to propel their carrier.

We are using them. But we're also using progress. We need multiple supply lines. ESA is no longer providing ATV for supply.

Not likely, it's in a very low earth orbit. Most satellites are above it.

Just curious, you say WE when responding to the poster...Do you work for NASA or SpaceX? Thanx

I remember that a similar supply rocket had the guidance system fail while approaching the Mir space station. That was well before there was an ISS.

In that case, the Progress impacted the space station and did some damage.

There are lots of details in the book, Dragonfly, about the Mir space station.

Didn't see the reply above this one. Great minds, etc..

Reminds me of when I interviewed Mike Foale just before he went up to the MIR in the 90's. I asked him if was worried and of course he gave the company answer. Two weeks after he got up there a resupply ran INTO the station. Then it caught fire.

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No lol, I mean "we" as a nation.

Ok, I know you are always moving forward, so I thought I would double check.lol

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They were very lucky to survive that incident. Foale's account is incredible.
"If, however, the axis was oriented so that the solar arrays can't ever pick up the Sun, then the station would be lost: a lot of energy would be required to brake out of the stable spin and energy was precisely what Mir didn't have. Mir would be locked into the bad spin forever and, as Michael says, "that would be it, we would have to abandon the station."

So which of Mir's principal axes were stable? Unfortunately, Michael and his colleagues did not know. Neither did ground control in Moscow, as it turned out later. Using a cracked and broken model of the Mir, and supplementing it with torches taped to its ends, Michael eventually ascertained that their best bet lay with the y-axis. The Soyuz's thrusters, because of their position, were unable to induce a rotation about the x-axis, and rotation about the z-axis would not have allowed the functioning solar arrays to pick up the Sun. "The best thing we could do was to rotate about the y-axis and hope that it was stable.""
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Launch Sandra bullock and Georgia colon to save the day

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They want to recreate the spinning docking scene from interstellar.

Spacex to the rescue lol

Its Russian mate .......the clue's in the thread title...

Uh, this isn't a NASA spacecraft?

They should try the "Matthew McConaughey maneuver."

It worked for him.

What happens in space is not your business

I could have sworn that said right after lunch not launch. I was thinking someone must be throwing up all over the place. I just hope the folks on the ISS didn't lose months worth of meals on that.

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