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S8 Ep326: ISS LAUNCHPAD ACCIDENT AND RUSSIA'S NUCLEAR ROLE IN CHINESE MOON BASE Colleague Anatoli Zak, Publisher of RussianSpaceWeb.com. A launchpad collapse has halted Russian cargo missions to the ISS, endangering the propellant supply required for critical orbit

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🗓️ 17 January 2026

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ISS LAUNCHPAD ACCIDENT AND RUSSIA'S NUCLEAR ROLE IN CHINESE MOON BASE Colleague Anatoli Zak, Publisher of RussianSpaceWeb.com. A launchpad collapse has halted Russian cargo missions to the ISS, endangering the propellant supply required for critical orbit maintenance. Zak also details Russia's attempt to join China's lunar ambitions, with the Kurchatov Institute developing a nuclear reactor to provide electricity for a future Chinese moon base. NUMBER 14
2006

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colleagues david livingson doctor, of the Space Show,

0:57.5

and then I told the exact of Russian Space Web.

1:00.5

An accident at the launch pad.

1:03.2

It happened in 1969.

1:06.8

It happens routinely.

1:08.6

But this time it happened to the Russian space program in an extremely damaging way,

1:15.3

while I believe the cosmonauts have no easy way home until that launch pad is fixed.

1:23.9

What happened, Anatoly? What do we know?

1:27.2

So last month, the Soviets, the Russian space program, rather, had a schedule to launch

1:35.8

cargo vehicle to the International Space Station, and that was a routine launch. But right

1:41.2

before that, at the end of November, there was a piloted, the crew launch

1:44.9

to the station. And the launch itself was successful. But as a result of that launch, as a result

1:53.7

of the vibrations, or we still investigating kind of what exactly happened. But essentially,

1:59.9

very important service platform,

2:03.1

which is used to prepare the rocket for launch.

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