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    Eine Kollision mit Weltraumschrott lässt drei chinesische Astronauten im Orbit stranden

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    2. EricFromOuterSpace on

      Title sounds pretty dramatic. From the article:

      *Three Chinese astronauts flew back to Earth aboard a Shenzhou spacecraft Friday, leaving three crewmates behind on the Tiangong space station with a busted lifeboat.*

      So waiting for a return Shenzhou. Not like, spinning around like the movie Gravity.

    3. Ralesong on

      I’m writing a paper about orbital logistics and issue of evacuation is something I am including in it. Even though the focus is on ISS centered operations, this event is too good of an example to not talk about it.

    4. treehobbit on

      Don’t give this clickbait the ad revenue. News outlets love to crow about astronauts being „stranded“ in space because it sounds super dramatic when what it really means is something like „returning them will be 20% more dangerous than usual, we don’t want to take that risk willingly so we’ll bring them home in another craft unless there’s an emergency“

      This has happened before, Mango Mussolini wouldn’t shut up about it and somehow tried to blame it on Joe Biden because that’s what he does. That was also a nothing burger of a situation, Starliner returned completely safely without them, they would have been fine.

      Space agencies are extremely conservative with safety nowadays. Assume if you see any dramatic news headline about space that it’s overstated. Search for another article with a less clickbait headline and read it closely to see what actually happened. Don’t reward stupid headlines.

    5. Drak_is_Right on

      So stranded is correct, but they can attach two spacecraft to the space station I think and keep a rocket and spacecraft in reserve on earth for rapid launch if need be.

      So for a bit they will have no backup margins nor ability to return if a medical emergency occurs. Fairly soon a replacement will be launched without crew to serve as a proper return vessel and lifeboat.

    6. praqueviver on

      Aren’t they back already? I’m pretty sure I’ve seen news of their safe landing recently.

    8. ihavenoidea12345678 on

      I wonder if the damaged capsule will just be disposed by reentry, or if they will attempt some repair, deorbit remotely and later salvage it.

      Staying tuned with interest on this one.

    9. Draugakjallur on

      I wonder if it was space junk caused by China’s stupid 2007 ballistic missile strike in space.

    10. jocax188723 on

      „Stranded“
      The next spacecraft (Shenzhou 22) was supposed to launch in April.
      They’re launching it next tuesday instead.

      Slightly faster than the Starliner crew.

    11. atape_1 on

      This is overly dramatic, their new return vehicle, the Shenzhou-22 is going to be launched on November 25. China has the foresight of having a spare ready for emergencies.

      They are putting the west to shame, „saving“ their stranded crew in 2 weeks, unlike NASA with the whole Starliner debacle.

    12. bougdaddy on

      A damaged window eh? This seems like a job for safelite repair, safelite replace

    13. Underwater_Karma on

      Personally, I’m going to need to see photos of this cracked window before i give to much credibility to „space junk strike“

      China is not a reliable narrator, and it’s well within their modus operandi to lie about the reason one other spacecraft is inoperable.

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