Russian Space Program: News & Discussion #2

.......the launch pad for the superheavy rocket will be built according to the principles implemented for the Energia booster rocket at Baikonur (site No. 250). This will be a universal stand-start complex, from which can launch both Soyuz-5 medium-range rockets and a combination of two, three and five such missiles (similar to the combination of Angara missiles using one, three and five Blocks for the design of rockets of different carrying capacity). It is the principle of combining the five rockets that is the basis of the new superheavy rocket...........

The engine will increase the lift capacity of the Angara-A5 carrier rocket to 37 tonnes, and the engine will be subsequently used in the third stage of a super-heavy carrier rocket....

The engine will increase the lift capacity of the Angara-A5 carrier rocket to 37 tonnes, and the engine will be subsequently used in the third stage of a super-heavy carrier rocket....

Interfax wrote:
Moscow. June 3. Interfax - Heavy rocket "Angara A5Ms" was first launched in 2021, he said on his Facebook account
in the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
"The first launch of heavy rocket" Angara A5Ms "from the cosmodrome" East "is scheduled for 2021," - he wrote.
"June 3 College of MIC and Roskosmos identify priority work on the creation of a new class of
sup super-heavy rocket and construction of infrastructure at the Baikonur East" - also said Rogozin.
"Angar" - family of launch vehicles of modular type with the oxygen-kerosene engines,
comprising a carrier four classes - from light to heavy - load range of 1.5 ( "Angar 1.1")
to 35 ( "Angar-A7") tons in low Earth
orbit (when starting with launch site "Plesetzk"). The lead developer and producer of
RN family "Angara" is the State Research and Production Space Center Khrunichev.
Before the Russian Space Agency has been tasked in the first half of 2016 to develop
a systematic project of universal launch facility with a starting point from which
you can run any of the three versions of the launcher "Angara" - "Angara-A5",
"Angara-A5P" ( manned) and "Angara-A5V" (increased payload).

PapaDragon wrote:
OK guys, this is a bit strange. I have checked Zak's website and weirdly enough he seems to be ignoring recent space program reshuffle and is just reporting general unrelated news.

No whining about Angara 5P cancelation or Vostochniy alterations, no gloating about Zenit purchase or Baikonur, no shitting on Soyuz-5. Just news.

My guess is that this new/old super heavy launcher put a sock in his mouth. When it was cancelled in 2014 in favor of Angara he was getting orgasms and gloating about space program going to the shitter without the Ukraine.

But now nothing.

I'd say that Roskosmos is actually back on track surprisingly enough...

Rmf wrote:so when hes not saying something bad  hes a twerp , when hes saying bad stuff hes a twerp again, nice psychology there.......

Rmf wrote:btw russians  themselves are highly critical of space programme , maybe you should read this,...

title: Why we have a non-flying rocket ,and deserted spaceport. (which is the FACT !)
https://geektimes.ru/post/289555/

kvs wrote:.....

Zak is a wanker who endlessly droned on about how the railway tunnels to Vostochny were too narrow for even the Angara rocket modules.  What
a retard, Russia can put the f*cking things on a boat in Murmansk and ship them to Vladivostok and then haul them to Vostochny.   The Soyuz-5, Sunkar
must be a physical impossibility to deploy at Vostochny according to this hack.  

PapaDragon wrote:Technically Navalny and Zak are Russians but you'd never guess that without wiki or bios.

Rmf wrote:so when hes not saying something bad  hes a twerp , when hes saying bad stuff hes a twerp again, nice psychology there , youre hillarious   ....
btw russians  themselves are highly critical of space programme , maybe you should read this,...

title: Why we have a non-flying rocket ,and deserted spaceport. (which is the FACT !)

https://geektimes.ru/post/289555/

Russia to orbit over 70 small satellites for first time

The launch is scheduled from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on July 14

MOSCOW, June 14. /TASS/. Over 70 small satellites will be orbited by a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket together with a Fregat booster as associated payload under the Kanopus-V-IK space mission, Glavcosmos, the Russian operator of launch services, said on its website on Wednesday.

The launch is scheduled from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on July 14, Glavcosmos said.

"Overall, 73 satellites will be launched as part of the Kanopus-V-IK mission. The Fregat acceleration unit will deliver the Kanopus-V-IK satellite and associated small satellites into three different orbits, with the subsequent de-orbiting of the booster. The mission of such complexity will be implemented for the first time in the history of the launch of small satellites," Glavcosmos said in a statement.

The satellites will differ by their format: from space vehicles of the 1U CubeSat type to micro-satellites weighing up to 120 kilograms to be launched in the interests of foreign customers from the United States, Germany, Japan, Canada and Norway.

As part of this mission, Russia will also launch two small MKA-N satellites developed by Dauria research and production association on order from Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos and also three satellites of the CubeSat format designed by Russian technical universities, Glavcosmos’s statement said.

Satellites designed by Russian universities are launched under the Roscosmos program for the support and the development of the country’s higher educational institutions in the sphere of creating small satellites. The Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket will launch the satellites Iskra-MAI-85 (the Moscow Aviation Institute), Mayak (the Moscow Polytechnic University) and Ekvador UTE-YuZGU (the Kursk South-Western State University).

By now, joint electrical trials of small satellites with the systems of the Fregat acceleration unit have been successfully held and preparations have been launched to integrate small space vehicles and form the space main stage, Glavcosmos said.

The record of orbiting the largest number of satellites per launch was set by India when a PSLV carrier rocket delivered 104 small satellites into outer space on February 15.

Glavcosmos

The space launch operator Glavcosmos was established in 1985 in the USSR Ministry of General Machine-Building. The company engaged in the space rocket industry’s foreign economic activity, organized and held researches and participated in the work to convert defense enterprises to civil output.

Today Glavcosmos participates in the implementation of contracts for the launch of Soyuz rockets from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, organizes foreigners’ flights to the International Space Station and cooperates with India and China in the space sphere.

The Russian government wholly owns Glavcosmos.

It was reported earlier that Glavcosmos got the status of an authorized operator of Soyuz-2 carrier rocket commercial launches from Russian cosmodromes.

In 2017-2018, Glavcosmos plans to act as the operator of the launches of over 100 commercial micro-satellites as an additional load while orbiting three satellites under Russia’s federal program.

Apart from this, Glavcosmos will be distributing images received from Russia’s Kanopus-V and Resurs-P Earth’s remote sensing satellites on foreign markets.

The family of Russia’s Soyuz-2 carrier rockets currently comprises Soyuz-2.1a and Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launchers and also the Soyuz-2.1v light rocket. They can be launched from the Baikonur, Plesetsk, and Vostochny cosmodromes and the Kourou spaceport (South America).

PapaDRAGON wrote:Construction of launchpad for super-heavy rocket on Vostochniy to start after completion of Angara launchpad.

The launch complex for the "Angara A5Ms" heavy carrier rocket at the Baikonur East will begin to build in 2018 - Rogozin
06.15.2017 14:58:01
     *** The third launch site, focused on super-heavy launch, will be built on the East after the 2021
     
      Moscow. June 15. Interfax-AVN - Construction of the launch complex for heavy-launch vehicle "Angara A5Ms" at the cosmodrome East will begin next year, he said in his Facebook account in Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
      "In 2018, construction will begin the launch complex for the heavy" Sheds A5Ms "with start-up in 2021, immediately after this third complex to be built - for extra heavy missiles," - he wrote.
      In addition, the Russian and Kazakh sides agreed on the construction of the launch complex for the middle class in Baikonur rocket.
      "Also, with regard to Baikonur, we throw it is never going to Day before yesterday we agreed with Kazakhstan for the construction of the middle class with the launch of a rocket in 2022." - wrote the deputy prime minister.
      He also said that in December, Russia plans to launch two rockets "Soyuz-2".
      "Two start Soyuz-2 are planned for this December Starting next year, the number of starts will increase annually.", - Rogozin wrote.

News of the man's death was met with dismay from Kazakh social media users. "Russia is launching its rockets and our people are running around in their own land and putting out fires. It is ridiculous

Another blamed Russia for the death: "It would be better if the rocket had fallen on the Kremlin."

"They leased out the space centre as if it were a barn and did nothing afterwards," Mels Eleusizov said at the time, "It is a shame on our country."

MOSCOW, June 16. /TASS/. Russia’s cargo spacecraft Progress MS-06 has automatically docked to the service module Zvezda of the International Space Station, Mission Control near Moscow said.

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