Comments on: Best video of Soyuz rocket burning up so far

By: Jason Sheroan

Jason Sheroan — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:28:04 +0000

Oh…I think understand now. There was a problem AND the problematic booster was what fell to Earth. Nevermind the post, Mod!

By: Jason Sheroan

Jason Sheroan — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:24:11 +0000

Henk, are you saying a Dutch Astronaut was riding in that fireball? Or rather the Soyez made it, but had to jettison it’s booster i.e the video? Sorry if I missed the details …

Jason

By: ChileVerde

ChileVerde — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:09:20 +0000

Fobos-Grunt: Looking like the very middle of January, nominally 15-16 with an even more nominal uncertainty of four days.

By: Henk

Henk — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:48:01 +0000

There was a Dutch astronaut on board of that Soyuz, so there has really been a lot of attention for this mission in the Dutch media. To have a part of the vehicle do a spectacular re-entry above the Netherlands is a very nice present. (that again made headlines in the news) Too bad I missed it…

By: Jana Stern

Jana Stern — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:02:10 +0000

The best video I saw so far about the Soyuz Rocket Reentry is this one from Germany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4JRiHP1YVU&feature=player_embedded

By: Soyuz rocket burning up « Effing Ucking Epic

Soyuz rocket burning up « Effing Ucking Epic — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:56:28 +0000

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By: André

André — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:03:20 +0000

The snowflakes-effect makes it extra special!

By: Halcyon Dayz, FCD

Halcyon Dayz, FCD — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:59:36 +0000

It went straight over my head.

Literally and figuratively. Damn.

@Grisha,

Like Americans and Dutchies, you can find Russians everywhere.

By: Digital Atheist

Digital Atheist — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:12:46 +0000

Damnitalltohades why don’t i ever get to see great stuff like this?

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:08:06 +0000

Reminded me of the part in your book “death from the skies” where a meteor destroys earth. Would a small fragment of a larger, trailing, meteor about to hit us look like this?

By: Elwood Herring

Elwood Herring — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:23:01 +0000

Granted that it’s extremely rare for anyone to be hurt by falling space debris, but sooner or later there will be a serious incident, possibly involving a great deal of fatalities, and when that happens it’s inevitable that there will be a massive backlash – first from the press, and then the public, against all spacefaring endeavours no matter how beneficial the project. That’s the human condition unfortunately; mainly apathy until something goes wrong, then the proverbial excrement engages with the extractor. I just hope it won’t happen for a long long time. The odds may be on our side for now, but there’s a lot of junk up there and more going up every day. The odds are shortening.

By: Dwight

Dwight — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:52:41 +0000

Years ago I saw a a huge fire ball. It was about the size of your fist at arms length. It was a Russian booster stage, it sure freaked out my girlfriend, I recall it was all over the local news the next day. Funny thing I guessed ot was a rocket but never thought I would see something like that, it was a fantastic site!

By: Grisha

Grisha — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:15:47 +0000

Over Germany? The commenter on the video is Russian. At one point he says “that’s not a comet, it’s some kind of a satellite…”

By: MichaelL

MichaelL — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:06:17 +0000

When I was about 16 or 17, so this was in the early 1980′s, I was riding my bike home from my girlfriends house at about 1:30AM. I was on a dark road, and all of a sudden the sky seemed to light up. I looked up and saw a flaming object tumbling and breaking up, very much like this. The next day, I called the RCMP and asked if they had received any other reports at that time. Turns out they had and they were trying to contact the Royal Canadian Air Force about it. Several hours later I got a call back. Turns out it was a Russian booster re entering the atmosphere. Needless to say, at 1:30AM it scared the bejeesus out of me. I started pedaling faster, screaming, “You won’t get me!”

By: Russian Space Program Suffers Another Failed Launch - Forbes

Russian Space Program Suffers Another Failed Launch - Forbes — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:56:30 +0000

[...] The Russian space program suffered another setback last weekend. A Soyuz-2 carrier rocket that was carrying a communications satellite into orbit, suffered a malfunction in its third stage, causing the satellite to fall to Earth. You can see a video of the satellite falling to Earth below, courtesy of Phil Plait. [...]

By: Mike Saunders

Mike Saunders — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:40:10 +0000

I heard junk was landing in Nambia too, a lot of stuff falling from the sky lately.

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:19:17 +0000

I heard someone say that they saw Comet Lovejoy in Denmark. I think that I now know what they saw. And yes, I did mention that Lovejoy is only visible in the southern hemisphere, and that only in the early morning anyway.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:43:07 +0000

Eerily similar to the videos of the shuttle breaking up over south Texas!