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A technical problem caused the anomalous landing of Soyuz

Moscow, Russia - Russian Commission has published the conclusions of the inquiry

The Russian Commission, created in order to discover the reasons of the anomalous landing of space capsule Soyuz, last May 4, has published the conclusions of the inquiry. According to the Commission, the re-enter's ballistic trajectory, which it had been forced the Soyuz, was due to an instrument's bad functioning that controls the module's landing. Russian space capsule landed far about 440 km from...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 45813
Rome, Italy, 05/26/2003 12:21
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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