What appears to be the remains of a Soviet Union spacecraft launched more than 38 years ago was found today, Saturday, January 11th washed up on the beach a few miles north of San Pedro Town. Images posted on social media by island resident David Campos shows several large metal pieces from the spacecraft marked with Russian lettering. Based on the identifying marks, the remnants are believed to be from the Soyuz 40, which was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on May 14, 1981.

The Soyuz 40 mission was a 1981 Soviet crewed spaceflight and the final flight of the Soyuz 7K-T spacecraft. It was a collaboration between the Soviet Union and Romania.

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(The Russian words on the picture translates to "fuel tank".)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_40

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It's really cool.

What is next???

We call Chicken Little and tell him he was right.

2019 Russian Space Craft Shell Washes Up On Beach Of Ambergris Caye, Belize

I mean we’ve had unorthodox things was onto the beach on Ambergris Caye before. I sent a message to David Campos, the man who pulled the shell from the water to find out when I could take a look. We drove down to Indigo and found this.

So cool that the barnacles are in a square – around the ridge where there’s a hatch or panel. The first thing we noticed – it’s in SHOCKINGLY good shape if it had been in the ocean for over 30 years. The steel pieces are still basically shiny and….perfect. Fabric and foam still in good shape.

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I have come across several pieces of spacecraft debris on ambergris caye over the years. The largest was the size of 3 queen size beds and I was able to decipher the owner.... Arienspace

Arienspace is a French lead consortium and has a launch site at French Gayana. The components found on the beach are often parts that are jettisoned on purpose, like the clamshell doors that protect the cargo, usually telecommunications satellites, during the launch and early assent stage.

Once into the thinner air at altitude they are discarded as trash into the ocean, just like Coke, Pepsi and Snapple group containers!

I wrote the boards of these four companies pointing out they're responsibility for their share of the beach trash blight on ambergris caye. Not surprisingly I never received a response.

All this to say, don't assume the space trash is old. It's likely only as old as the time it took to drift ashore unhindered.

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