Space failure

摘要

The next manned mission to the International Space Station will be delayed by a month,to October, following the loss of a Russian cargo capsule carrying fresh supplies into orbit. The launch vehicle, a Soyuz-U rocket, was lost after its third stage failed around 5 minutes after lift-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The failure raises questions about quality control in the Russian space programme: in August, a Russian telecommunications satellite aboard a Proton rocket was delivered to the wrong orbit. See go.nature.com/lfp5zl for more.