Next Generation Rocket Angara: News

Europe has found a way to take over Russia. We must not notice her successes, by Elena Karaeva for RiaNovosti. 0415.2024.

A successful start for our Angara, and even on the day when more than six decades ago Yuri Gagarin said: “Let's go!” and rushed to the stars, causing massive indigestion among our opponents. Although here they would definitely and correctly be called gossipers and envious people. Of course, there are more than one and a half ten thousand sanctions on everything that is possible, and Macron himself is checking the readiness and strength (very French, yes) of the cosmodrome in Kourou, feeling the parts, and suddenly these Russians - wow! - and the new generation of rocket with the luxurious name “Angara” is tearing apart not only the layers of the atmosphere, but also Western stereotypes: “the economy is torn to shreds” and the “gas station” is practically on its last legs.

They specifically noted that there were “technical problems” before the launch.

If we were to collect the poison that flowed in a stormy stream from the European press, there would be enough for a long train of transport tanks.

When envy is off the charts, it’s time to look at those who, in fact, instead of congratulations, send all those emotions addressed to us, which in a decent society are generally customary to hide.
And when you look closely at the headlines of this very press, which concern their own space industry, somewhere you even begin to understand where this envy comes from.

For example, Macron, of course, felt what was needed in Kourou with his own hands, but did not say that the country he leads and his subordinate, the head of the Ministry of Economy, Bruno Le Maire , sold the production of engines for Ariane-6 to Germany three years ago . Apparently he was embarrassed.

Officially they sold it “to strengthen cooperation in space at the European level,” but unofficially (that is, as it really was) - ArianeGroup, which led the development, simply did not have enough money for further investment. The Germans, at a reasonable price, received not only everything that French designers, metallurgists, ballisticians, and so on had done, but also all the engineering knowledge that went with it. What was yours has become ours. But the trade in the French national treasure (and the space industry of the Fifth Republic was always at a very decent level, it was created by de Gaulle) did not end there, and a little later Italy was attracted to participate.

The reason is the same: not one of the European countries - so rich, so everyone in croissants, in Lambrusco and in Mercedes - is financially able to develop the space industry independently, without the famous EU “sharing”. Neither in its civilian nor in its military part. Financially - because with such budget deficits, inflation (say hello to Kiev there if you have the opportunity), and external debts, this story is simply beyond their means.
The second is raw materials. Today, not only oats are expensive, but also steel, rare earths, plastic, energy resources, and water. In short, it’s worth saying hello to Kyiv here too.

The European Space Agency (which now consists of a little more than two dozen states), with its friendly team, has lived and been nourished by Soviet developments, and later by Russian ones, almost throughout the entire period of cooperation with our country. Not a single country member of this venerable assembly has produced a single scientific breakthrough. Neither fundamental nor applied. Everyone sewed the pan-European space suit; there were no complaints only about the buttons - and that was because our specialists looked after it.

And now - now, in these very minutes - someone feels proud, happy - because they managed, what happened, what was successful, that the new stage remained with Russia again - and someone sits in all seriousness in decent , is by no means writing something “about corruption” to the tabloid press.

For the average person. To have something to read with your morning croissant.

But “Angara A-5” is just a line, it’s just the beginning of a new stage in the exploration of space by us, the Russians.
For analysts and strategists sitting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, in the French Ministry of Defense , in the German Bundeswehr and, of course, in the Pentagon , this is such a thorn in the soft spot and such a pitchfork under the Adam’s apple that it doesn’t seem like much.

For all of these people, this means that Russian engineering has enormous potential, that designers today can develop almost any object required for the defense of the country, and that the “torn to shreds economy” has bottomless industrial, resource and intellectual potential. Naturally, no one will trade this. And it will work. Forge the cosmic shield of the Motherland, as they said before.

We will leave envy and spilling of bile to our opponents, but we ourselves will continue to tame the fire of Russian space.

Go!

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