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Mir Spacecraft: Worst collision in the history of space flight [video]
- hartror 10y agoIf you're like me and have no intention of installing flash here is an alternative video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM7fTLLmgbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM7fTLLmgbk
- aidos 10y agoFor others, the video linked here doesn't tell the whole story, so you're better off watching the one in the article if you want to know how it ends! :)
- Bromskloss 10y agoHere's a direct link extracted with youtube-dl. http://cp401491-vh.akamaihd.net/i/,mps_h264_med/public/news/world/1248000/1248218_h264_800k,mps_h264_hi/public/news/world/1248000/1248218_h264_1500k,.mp4.csmil/index_1_av.m3u8 http://cp401491-vh.akamaihd.net/i/,mps_h264_med/public/news/...
- Coding_Cat 10y agoOr if like me you do have flash installed but the site crashes the plugin...
- jekub 10y agoOr just browse the article with a mobile user-agent. Big site like this cannot cut themselves from big market like iOS or Android, so there is always a non-flash version available.
- epaga 10y ago(1997) might be a good addition to the title.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoIs the article from 1997, though? It's dated as 2016.
- acz 10y ago"Mir spacecraft 1997 collision: Worst collision in the history of space flight"
- Ensorceled 10y agoThat doesn't answer the question.
- jwn 10y agoThe event is from 1997, this article is dated June 22 2016.
- melling 10y agoThe astronaut looks 20 years older in the video than on Mir. What would Sherlock Holmes deduce?
- speps 10y agoIt's a new interview so no.
- jonknee 10y agoYes, an article about a long gone space station is about a long ago event. Shocking! It's a new article though.
- alangpierce 10y agoI think one concern is that if you're not familiar with Mir, and the fact that it's long gone (or if you're just skimming titles on HN), the title by itself could be seen as suggesting that the worst collision in the history of space flight just happened recently. Putting a year, or maybe calling it "Reflections on the worst collision..." or something like that, would get rid of that ambiguity.
- aleyan 10y agoStrictly thinking, Space Shuttle Columbia colliding with foam was worse[0] than this. It is amazing how Mir courted disaster[1] but ended its mission without fatalities or serious injuries. I wonder what if anything could be learned from this? [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaste... [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir#Accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir#Accidents
- Piskvorrr 10y ago"Shit happens." Both scenarios could have played out with opposite endings (e.g. there have been other debris strikes in previous Shuttle missions, without fatal consequences), with very small changes in inputs. There's plenty of things to be learned from each, but I don't see anything those incidents would have in common, except "IN SPAAAACE!".
- aleyan 10y agoWhat they have in common is one is BBC's candidate for "Worst collision in the history of space flight" and the other one is mine. Agree with your comment on opposite endings for small changes in inputs.
- mikeash 10y agoThe debris collision happened about 20km up, and the orbiter began to break up at an altitude of around 70km (on the way back down, of course), so teeechnically speaking neither event happened in space. Man, my inner nitpicker really came out on that one.
- amelius 10y agoThere is no clear boundary of the atmosphere, so technically speaking no event ever happens in space.
- NegativeLatency 10y ago
- kbart 10y agoIt's time to add [FLASH] tag to HN.
- forgotpwtomain 10y agoIt's time for BBC and other major news providers to stop serving Flash content.
- DanSmooth 10y agoLet's start small by disabling auto-play.
- theseatoms 10y agoWon't someone think of the advertisers‽
- lmm 10y agoUnfortunately it seems like we added that nonsense into HTML5 :(.
- 991283911 10y agoWorse, Firefox told me that my plugin wasn't safe, then the Mozilla Foundation demanded that I create an account with them, otherwise: No security updates for you! Is Mozilla slowly going evil?
- Wonderdonkey 10y agoSide note: The volume on BBC's media player goes to 11.
- BillTheCat 10y agoAnother short video by the BBC about the same incident with an interview with Sasha Lazutkin, one of the Cosmonauts on the station at the time but not the one controlling the cargo ship: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p028l07k http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p028l07k
- cyberferret 10y agoOne thing that was unclear to me - they say that they had to retreat to the Soyuz escape vehicle as a safety measure, which is understandable. Then he says that because the space station was tumbling out of control due to the impact, they had to fire the retro rockets to counteract the spin and bring things under control again - did they mean they used the Soyuz capsule retro rockets? Or did they manage to deploy the ones on the space station itself (if indeed it was fitted with retro rocket packs)?? If they used the Soyuz retro rockets, then I would think that was a feat in itself - if they had to use the gimbals on the capsule attached to a outer portion of the station to ascertain the pitch and roll of the main structure and counteract it. The interview was not specific, and I couldn't find any clear info via Google so thought I would ask in case anyone here might know & could clarify.
- delbel 10y agoThis story was told better in the book [1]. Specifically the part where they used a Soyuz to re-align the space station. They didn't think it would work, because it was the first idea they came up with and it seems so genius. They spent hours looking for a second solution before trying it. Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir