soyuz

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Also when you calculate the accident rates of the recent ~20 years Soyuz vs the Space Shuttle, the Soyuz is much safer.

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Quick take

Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.

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noun

Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.

noun

Any of a series of Soviet/Russian space capsules

noun

Any of a series of Soviet/Russian space launch rockets

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for soyuz.

noun

Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.

noun

Any of a series of Soviet/Russian space capsules

noun

Any of a series of Soviet/Russian space launch rockets

Example sentences

Also when you calculate the accident rates of the recent ~20 years Soyuz vs the Space Shuttle, the Soyuz is much safer.

Too failure prone (it killed a lot more astronauts than Soyuz even though Soyuz is older).

It's an instruction for one of of Soyuz rockets, not some Soyuz spacecraft iteration.

Soyuz, as a non-reuseable technology (actually, some parts are reused) benefits from incremental improvements; Soyuz of today has quite different equipment than it had in late 60-s.

Both Soyuz and STS have had the same number of catastrophic failures (Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11 on the Soyuz side; Challenger and Columbia on the STS side).

>it killed a lot more astronauts than Soyuz even though Soyuz is older) The Soviet space program killed 200+ people.

Saturn-V couldn't carry a mission to repair Hubble Space Telescope similar to Soyuz mission to repair Salyut-7?

> it killed a lot more astronauts than Soyuz even though Soyuz is older That's only because Soyuz has a smaller crew capacity.

Encyclopedia Astronautica posits that the Soyuz design is a multicore version of the German-designed Gröttrup G4.

Komarov, as well as Volkov, Dobrovolskii and Patsaev paid with their lives to make Soyuz safer...

The Soyuz launch escape system, for example, subjects its occupants to 14-17g for five seconds.

The Soyuz is fairly recent (around 2005 I think), yet it looks completely archaic compared to the Enterprise -- which is a late '70s vintage spacecraft design itself.

Quote examples

There's perhaps some kind of "worse is better" lesson in Soyuz, but I'm not sure what that would be exactly.

When I see a Soyuz launch I think "Go, Russia" and I felt similar things when India, China or Japan launch rockets.

Proper noun examples

And the space shuttles carried many more people than other space vehicles except for the current generation of Soyuz.

Their website says that they employ solid landing rockets just before touchdown, similar to the Soyuz.

Since the Energia was a stand-alone heavy launcher (that didn't rely on shuttle engines), that they had a whole fleet of lighter launchers and the Soyuz/Progress were excellent for carrying astronauts and cargo to LEO, the only mission for which the Buran was indispensable was stealing American spy satellites.