Russian Space Program: News & Discussion #1

Cyberspec wrote:Not good.

It might not be the end of it but delayed

Austin wrote:The space agency has denied the news of cancellation of Nuclear Propulsion program

flamming_python wrote:Well apparently NASA has accidently generated a warp bubble while testing a microwave-based space thruster here on Earth.

http://sputniknews.com/us/20150425/1021360503.html
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/04/nasa-may-have-accidentally-developed-a-warp-drive/

So who needs nuclear propulsion then?

But nuclear power on the other hand might still come in handy.

flamming_python wrote:Well apparently NASA has accidently generated a warp bubble while testing a microwave-based space thruster here on Earth.

http://sputniknews.com/us/20150425/1021360503.html
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/04/nasa-may-have-accidentally-developed-a-warp-drive/

So who needs nuclear propulsion then?

But nuclear power on the other hand might still come in handy.

Austin wrote:The space agency has denied the news of cancellation of Nuclear Propulsion program

Morpheus Eberhardt wrote:

flamming_python wrote:Well apparently NASA has accidently generated a warp bubble while testing a microwave-based space thruster here on Earth.

http://sputniknews.com/us/20150425/1021360503.html
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/04/nasa-may-have-accidentally-developed-a-warp-drive/

So who needs nuclear propulsion then?

But nuclear power on the other hand might still come in handy.

Funny.

Moscow. April 24th. Interfax-AVN - The project of the nuclear power plant in the interests of space exploration has not stopped, "Interfax-AVN" on Friday, the Russian Space Agency spokesman Igor Bourenkov.

"Federal Space Agency continues to work on the key technologies for the creation of carrier rockets with a reusable first stage interorbital tugs with electrorocket or nuclear propulsion. Information about the exclusion of these activities from the project to the new PCF 2016-2025 years did not correspond to reality," - said I.Burenkov .

So he commented on the information of a number of Russian media reports that the Russian Federation stopped work on the creation of nuclear power plants megawatt-class in the interests of development of deep space.

Earlier research center Keldysh where megawatt nuclear power plant is designed for a class of spacecraft, "Interfax" said that they knew nothing about the decision to stop funding the project. "If indeed Roscosmos refused from this project, I was not informed. For me it is - the news. I think it's - is unlikely," - said the center's director, academician Anatoly Koroteev.
The fact that Russia plans to build a nuclear propulsion system, which will "ensure even space flight to other planets," was announced in November 2009. Later it became known that a nuclear power plant for long-term transport and energy module will create a center of Keldysh in 2015.
The project involves the following steps: 2010 - the start of work, 2012 - Completion of preliminary design and conduct computer modeling workflow, 2015 - the creation of a nuclear power plant in 2018 - the flight of the transport module based on it.
Keldysh Research Center has completed the preliminary design and detailed design has started a nuclear power installation of megawatt-class space transportation systems. Two years ago A.Koroteev reported that work is going according to plan.
"Work on the project began in 2010. Since that time we have made ​​technical proposals, preliminary design. We are working on the model units, which characterize the key components of the general construction. From this year moved to the detailed design stage," - said A.Koroteev "Interfax -AVN. "
Experts of the center is working to establish elektroplazmennogo engine, as well as complex products from composite materials that will be used for nuclear power plants megawatt class.
In 2010, the Federal Space Agency announced the tender for the development of transport and energy module based on a nuclear power plant. Until this issue has been discussed at a meeting of the Presidential Commission for Modernization and Technological Development of Russia's Economy.
According to experts, the establishment of nuclear power and propulsion solutions is a prerequisite for long-term tasks in the near and outer space, space development of the XXI century.
Nuclear energy has been used in space: in the period from 1970 to 1988 in the Soviet Union was launched 32 spacecraft with nuclear thermoelectric power plant, and in the period from 1960 to 1980 was developed and tested at Semipalatinsk nuclear rocket engine.
The former head of the Russian Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov, said earlier that preliminary and technical projects of a nuclear power plant with the manufacture and testing of components and systems requires 3 billion rubles., Another 250 million rubles. needed for the preliminary design of the transport-energy module.
In addition, 4.5 billion rubles. required for ground testing of a nuclear power plant. The most expensive stage (9 billion rubles.) - The creation of transport-energy module based on a nuclear power plant. These include ground and flight tests of transport and energy module.
Assembling the transport and energy module with a nuclear power plant, likely to be held in orbit assembly and experimental complex, which was planned to turn the International Space Station. The vehicle is a transport-energy module with a nuclear power installation can be used to study and explore the Moon, Mars mission.

GarryB wrote:An effort to ensure independence from Ukraine for Russia...

I wonder if the US and EU will make the same effort to integrate the Ukraine into their economies to help them out after helping creating the mess they are currently in in terms of their economy and military industrial complex.

sepheronx wrote:

GarryB wrote:An effort to ensure independence from Ukraine for Russia...

I wonder if the US and EU will make the same effort to integrate the Ukraine into their economies to help them out after helping creating the mess they are currently in in terms of their economy and military industrial complex.

Highly doubt it since Ukraine has effectively lost majority of their industrial production/strength already and have only really profited off of agriculture, which is going to become a problem for Ukraine again as Russia is now getting rid of the "ease of transaction" of purchases from Ukraine in terms of food, which they export a lot of to them.  So in the end, majority of Ukrainian agriculture will have to compete with the rest of the EU countries whom are agrarian and their industrial production will probably just resort to simple assemblies and steel production.