{"id":315136,"date":"2025-11-29T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/315136\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:01:07","slug":"primary-russian-launch-pad-damaged-during-rocket-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/315136\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Russian launch pad damaged during rocket liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nov. 29 (UPI) — Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome was damaged during Thursday’s launch that sent two Russian cosmonauts and one U.S. astronaut to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

Russia leases the launch facility, which is located in Kazakhstan, and a post-launch inspection by Roscosmos officials confirmed suffered damage to its launch pad, CNN reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“An assessment of the condition of the launch complex is currently underway,” Roscosmos officials said in a statement, adding that the “damage will be repaired in the near future.”<\/p>\n

Roscosmos already has all of the equipment and parts needed at the facility to repair the launch damage.<\/p>\n

Video footage of the launch site indicates a service bay located beneath the launch pad became dislodged when the Soyuz 2.1a rocket initiated its booster engines during liftoff, according to Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Part of it fell into an expansive exhaust trench, and Russian state media published the video footage showing debris flying upward during the launch.<\/p>\n

Roscosmos also published an overhead photo of the launch site, which shows the burned remnants of a large structure lying in the launchpad’s exhaust trench.<\/p>\n

The incident did not harm the spacecraft’s three crewmembers or damage the rocket and spacecraft.<\/p>\n

The Baikonur Cosmodrome is the only one available for Russia to send manned crews into space but was damaged by the blast from the rocket that sent the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft on its way to the ISS, where it successfully docked on the ISS on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 29 (UPI) — Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome was damaged during Thursday’s launch that sent two Russian cosmonauts and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[140384,69065,49,48,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-315136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-baikonur-cosmodrome","9":"tag-booster-rocket","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}