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speed7 t1_j127qxa wrote

I’m just here to see all the Russia apologists tell us how reliable the Soyuz is and how the Russian aerospace industry is totally not in decline.

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gulgin t1_j12dejy wrote

I mean, I am not a Russia apologist, but space junk impacts are pretty random. I don’t think any other spacecraft are particularly well hardened to impacts like this and it seems to me just a random incident of bad luck. I am not an expert though, maybe US craft are hardened?

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toodroot t1_j12k7ke wrote

Starliner and Dragon both had more than a year of delay while arguing with NASA about MMOD (micrometeoroid and orbital debris). Which is what we're talking about.

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WilliamMorris420 t1_j12xs02 wrote

They had a hole in one spacecraft, as it got damaged during construction and somebody just put a patch on it.

It could have been caused by a micro-meteorite or it could just be Russian build quality.

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tjeulink t1_j15obyn wrote

they literally patch the ISS with ducktape over pressure leaks in the hull. thats standard. not saying the repair isn't out of spec, but sometimes weird repairs are perfectly fine even though you would think it isn't.

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WilliamMorris420 t1_j19hoti wrote

But at least everybody knows about "funny" repairs and can keep an eye on it and do a proper repair later on. When mission control sends up a new repair kit.

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pinkheartpiper t1_j12fka8 wrote

They say it might have been space junk or micrometeoroid, even JWST was hit by a micrometeoroid.

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himmelstrider t1_j12geev wrote

I came here to see someone pushing an agenda and using a random, non-tech related event to assert a political opinion.

Hey-yo!

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Nulovka t1_j12ybkz wrote

Number of cosmonauts killed going to/from/or in space in a Soyuz: 4 (Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11)

Number of astronauts killed going to/from/or in space in a Space Shuttle: 14 (Columbia, Challenger).

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Blakut t1_j138jfv wrote

Number of cosmonauts who flew with Soyuz, a single use spacecraft: 100

Number of astronauts who flew on the six shuttles that were reused: 355

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stony1185 t1_j13cs1k wrote

Idk about shuttel starts but i think there are a little over 150 maned soyuz flights so the 100 occupants seems a little low for a two to three person crew...

But even the shuttles number seem a little low because there are over 130 launches with crews up to 8...

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bookers555 t1_j139d3z wrote

Blame congress, not engineering, the Space Shuttle we got is completely different from what NASA envisioned of just having a small, reusable space "taxi" to let people come and go from space stations, not the big, clunky, ultra expensive behemoth it ended up being.

It's a miracle that thing only blew up twice.

Not that I'm saying the Soyuz is unreliable if it is true it was just a micrometeorite.

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