**UPDATE** NASA Briefing added.
A rocket escape system was used to blow the Soyuz capsule free of the rocket and the crew landed safety a little over 300 miles away from the launch site earlier today. This is the second time an abort system has been used on a manned flight during the launch phase.
Soyuz spacecraft have successfully prevented the loss of crew with a launch abort twice in its history thus far, though both cases are considered a loss of the mission. Another Soyuz mission was aborted on-orbit.
The successful aborts to date are:
• Soyuz 18a, launched 5 April 1975, failed to separate the second and third stages which triggered an automated abort system. The engines on the service module were used to separate the crew from the launch vehicle. [LINK]
• The Igla docking system suffered an engine failure on Soyuz 33 on 10 April 1979. After consideration by ground crews, the mission was aborted by firing the backup engines and initiating a ballistic reentry. [LINK]
• On 26 September 1983 Soyuz T-10-1 caught fire and the crew was saved by firing its launch escape system. It is, to date, the only successful manned pad abort. [LINK]
• Soyuz MS-10 aborted on 11 October 2018 when the Soyuz-FG booster failed mid-flight. Both crew members survived the steep ballistic descent. [LINK]
• Soyuz 18a, launched 5 April 1975, failed to separate the second and third stages which triggered an automated abort system. The engines on the service module were used to separate the crew from the launch vehicle. [LINK]
• The Igla docking system suffered an engine failure on Soyuz 33 on 10 April 1979. After consideration by ground crews, the mission was aborted by firing the backup engines and initiating a ballistic reentry. [LINK]
• On 26 September 1983 Soyuz T-10-1 caught fire and the crew was saved by firing its launch escape system. It is, to date, the only successful manned pad abort. [LINK]
• Soyuz MS-10 aborted on 11 October 2018 when the Soyuz-FG booster failed mid-flight. Both crew members survived the steep ballistic descent. [LINK]
Launch Livestream
The failure is noted by the Russian commenter at 4 minutes 28 seconds into the video and the NASA commenter does not acknowledge the problem until the 8 minutes 18-second mark.
Abort Explained by a NASA Talking Head
Kenny Todd, International Space Station Operations Integration Manager, and Reid Wiseman, Deputy Chief Astronaut, talking about the Soyuz MS-10 abort with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, after being launched by a Soyuz-FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on 11 October 2018, at 08:40 UTC (14:40 local time).
Scott Manley Discusses the Failure
From the video description:
Soyuz MS-10 was supposed to carry a pair of the crew to the International space station, but there was an issue shortly after staging which forced the crew to abort. This is the first time in hundreds of space flights that a crew had to use an in-flight abort system.
At this time Soyuz is the only rocket able to send astronauts to the space station and the current crew will have to return home in 2 months. If the situation isn't resolved there's a chance the ISS will be left empty for a while.
Updated news since I (Scott Manley) made this video:
The timeline on NASA site is incorrect, Launch Escape Tower does indeed jettison near to staging time, shroud jettisons 40 seconds later. The capsule was pulled from the rocket using the shroud motors.
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