Soyuz MS-10 Abort Animation

In October 2018, a booster failure caused Soyuz MS-10 to abort its attempt to fly to the ISS.
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On Oct. 11, 2018, Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague attempted to launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. However, about two minutes into flight, a booster failure prompted an in-flight abort.

Liftoff took place at 8:40 UTC and the initial phase of the launch appeared to go by the book. The launch escape tower jettisoned about 1 minute, 54 seconds into the flight as planned and the four strap-on boosters about four seconds later. That’s where things went wrong.

An improper separation by one of the four strap-on boosters resulted in a collision with the core stage. This triggered an automatic abort

But because the escape tower was already gone, it was the engines in the payload fairing that pulled the capsule, along with the orbital module, away from the failing booster. Less than 40 seconds later, a second set of thrusters on the fairing pulled it and the orbital module away from the capsule.

This animation is an approximation based on what was seen, and what information has been released.

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