Russian Space Program: News & Discussion #2

miketheterrible wrote:And with the fake news being spread, I think some people here need to back track in their claims about the poor news in the aerospace industry.  Cause the bad news was fake news.

Specialists will try to regain control over Spekr-R radio telescope on January 21

Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev has harshly criticized the top brass at the state space agency, urging them to talk less about future projects and focus on fixing outstanding issues instead.

“We should stop the project-mongering, quit blabbing about where we’ll fly to in 2030, we should work, talk less and do more,” Medvedev said on Wednesday during a meeting with the top executives of the Russian state-owned space corporation.

The agency was also tasked with fixing its “financial discipline” within a month, and urged to use the Ministry of Defense’s experience in this area as an example. The construction of the Vostochniy Cosmodrome remains the main issue, as it’s been marred by corruption scandals and is well behind schedule. The ultimate goal is to make the Russian space industry financially viable and lucrative, as its “competitors” are already there, Medvedev stated.

The remarks appeared to personally targeted the director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, who attended the gathering as well. The veteran politician became the chief of Roscosmos last May. Before that, he served as deputy prime minister, overseeing the defense and space industries.

Rogozin is well known for groundbreaking statements on ambitious projects that refer to the distant future. Last November, for example, he unveiled an ambitious plan to establish a permanent base on the moon, which will be staffed by a type of sophisticated “avatar robot.” Such a base is expected to go online in the early 2030s, according to Rogozin.

Roscosmos, however, has experienced a string of setbacks over the past year. Several spaceships have crashed, including a crewed Soyuz-FG mission. Last October, a rocked malfunctioned moments after the launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, but the crew luckily escaped the near-death experience unharmed.

Apart from that, Rogozin’s term as the director of Roscosmos was marred by a large-scale scandal around a mysterious hole which was discovered on the Soyuz MS-09 spaceship, docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The discovery prompted a full-blown investigation in space, with Russian cosmonauts inspecting the faulty ship from the inside and outside. A hole was apparently drilled in the hull of the ship but culprit still remains unknown.

Last November, Roscosmos was also branded a “champion” in the field of violations by Alexey Kudrin – the chief of Russian financial watchdog, overseeing activities of state corporations. The company, however, insists that the said violations actually date back to before the new administration took over and actually were more about bad paperwork than corruption. The chief of Roscosmos press service, on his part, accused the media of waging a whole campaign to try and portray the company as the “largest debtor and a branch of industry which munches through federal cash.”

Nibiru wrote:

Last November, Roscosmos was also branded a “champion” in the field of violations by Alexey Kudrin

I dont like how Kudrin is trying hard to squeeze himself in this issue to build some sort of credibility. It stinks of a 5th columnist plot to further sabotage Russia of important projects.

PapaDragon wrote:
Superior Dmitry calls out Trampoline Man on his incessant bullsh*t  :
‘Talk less & do more’: Russian PM blasts leadership of country’s space agency

The total revenue of Roscosmos organizations in 2019 will grow to 445 billion rubles

The head of the state corporation, Dmitry Rogozin, added that the company first had a net consolidated profit, which in 2019 is planned to increase four times

Roskosmos for six months reduced the debt burden of the Khrunichev Center by 30 billion rubles

MOSCOW, February 4. / TASS /. Roskosmos for six months reduced the debt burden of the Center named after MV Khrunichev by 30 billion rubles. This was the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin reported to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin during a working meeting.

"I would like to separately report on the [State Space Research and Production Center] Khrunichev, Vladimir Vladimirovich. The enterprise is working, its entire production activity has been restored, the current load on the Khrunichev center has been removed for 30 billion rubles in almost six months," Rogozin said.

Super heavy rocket "Yenisei" will send to the moon a mock up of the ship "Federation"

Big_Gazza wrote:Zak has reported that there are problems with the contract to build the Angara pad at Vostochny and that the construction contract with PSO kazan has been cancelled...

No links... no sources...  and after a few weeks I haven't been able to find ANY corroborating info anywhere.  

If this was true, I'd expect that NATOstani mouthpieces would be crowing with glee, but AFAIK there has been utter silence.  

Anyone know if this is true or has Anatoly "I'm a 5th-column fuktard" Zak been supping at the radiator coolant again?  

GunshipDemocracy wrote:...And here for Papsm from Dima with love - RD-171MV tested

https://twitter.com/Rogozin/status/1093791995972198400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw...

Vann7 wrote:There is plenty of money in Russia budget, for space program...

Vann7 wrote:...$52 BIlLIONS in sochi + $11Billions in world coup is a lot of money they will never recover back..

Vann7 wrote:...meanwhile Russia is ending its only telescope in space...

...It is planned that the superheavy rocket "Don "will be more load-lifting superheavy rocket than" Yenisei", the first start of which is planned in 2028.

"The difference between the Don and the Yenisei will be the addition of another stage, which will make the don more lifting than the Yenisei. "Yenisei" (or a carrier rocket of super-heavy class of the first stage, STK-1) will be able to put into low earth orbit a payload weighing from 88 to 103 tons, and into lunar orbit – from 20 to 27 tons.

"Don" (or carrier rocket super-heavy class of the second stage, STK-2), these figures will be, respectively, 125-130 tons and 32 tons, " – said the Agency interlocutor.

The source added that the first launch of the don rocket is scheduled for 2029. "His goal will be to send to the moon of the take-off and landing complex to work out the lunar landing on its surface to ensure the future landing of Russian astronauts on a natural satellite of the Earth," he explained.

Future payloads for "Yenisei" and "don", according to the source, will be launched to the moon manned transport spacecraft "Federation" weight of 20 tons, the lunar landing-take-off complex with a mass of 27 tons and a module of a lunar base with a mass of 27 to 32 tons.

"In addition, they will be able to bring into geostationary orbit spacecraft based on the transport and energy module weighing 26-30 tons and to the Lagrange point L2 of the Sun-Earth system (a place in space where the gravity of the Sun and the Earth is balanced. - ed.) – telescopes weighing 30-40 tons for basic research of deep space", - he explained.

Earlier, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti that Roscosmos finally determined the most preferred appearance of the super-heavy-class carrier rocket "Yenisei" for flights to the moon: it will use the RD-180 engine supplied to the US, other variants of the "Yenisei" are no longer considered
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The final shape of the Yenisei rocket with all the technical features will be registered in the draft project, which should be prepared by November 2019.

PapaDragon wrote: 

Looks like there is another superheavy rocket version on the roster, Don superheavy (125-130 tons LEO, 32 tons lunar orbit).

That would roughly be SLS equivalent:

Pilots and astronauts will learn to breathe fluid during overloads

MOSCOW, Feb. 11 - RIA News . Pilots and astronauts will learn to breathe fluid, RIA Novosti reported in the press service of the Advanced Study Foundation (FPI).
It is explained that this will help them painlessly carry significant overloads in flight.
The laboratory, whose employees are working on liquid breathing technology, appeared in 2016. Initially, the work was aimed at rescuing submarine crews.
“In addition to submariners, liquid breathing can be used by pilots and astronauts who also work in low or high pressure conditions,” the fund said.

The source told where the first private spaceport in Russia could appear

MOSCOW, February 9 - RIA News . The first private spaceport in Russia, from which suborbital tourist rockets will be launched, can be built near Kazan or Nizhny Novgorod, relevant negotiations are underway with the heads of the regions, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.
"Negotiations on the allocation of a site for suborbital tourism are in the final stages with two regions. Documents are being prepared for signing. Depending on which region we can agree upon earlier, the site will be deployed on that territory," the source said.
According to him, we are talking about the creation of a cosmodrome for launching tourists by the Cosmocourse company. The company itself refrained from commenting. Earlier there they reported that they were considering a space for space tourism at Baikonur.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, we are talking about the allocation of land in the Alkeevsky
district of Tatarstan and the Ardatovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region. In the case of a land plot,
the company will begin negotiations with the Roscosmos State Corporation and other interested entities
on the allocation of licenses and permits for launching from a specific area.

Earlier it was reported that "Cosmocourse" received a license from "Roskosmos" for space activities. For a flight to an altitude of 200 kilometers, the Cosmocourse is developing a single-stage returning rocket and a seven-seat spacecraft. It is expected that the first flight will be completed in 2025. It will last 15 minutes, of which tourists will be about five minutes in zero gravity. The company expects annually up to 700 people from Russia to make a suborbital flight. The cost of the ticket will be approximately 200-250 thousand dollars.

Scientist rules out sending cosmonauts to fix faulty Russian space telescope in orbit

GunshipDemocracy wrote:....
Rogozin rulez
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The team of developers of the Federation moved from RSC Energia to the private space company S7 Space, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.

As the source of the Agency, the head of the test sector of the flight test Department, test cosmonaut of RSC Energia mark Serov from today works in S7 Space (part of the S7 Group and owns the project of the floating cosmodrome "Sea launch"). Together with him have gone even five people.

According to him, all of them developed the spaceship "Federation".

Mark Serov RIA Novosti has confirmed its move to the S7 Space.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BuB8_VihMDJ/

PapaDragon wrote:
Entire Federation-spacecraft development team has been poached by S7 Space. Looks like Mark Serov finally got tired designing stuff that will never be made let alone fly.  

Great for S7 Space but it looks to me that Roskosmos is slowly but surely getting porked.  

Rogozin is really going for broke  

Roscosmos has signed a new contract for the flight of two space tourists to the ISS

"State Corporation Roscosmos" and the American company Space Adventures signed a contract for short-term space flights to the International Space Station of two non-professional astronauts on the same ship. The flight to the station will take place before the end of 2021, "said Roscosmos.

The state corporation specified that the enterprises of the industry "have already begun to create a manned spacecraft Soyuz MS and a launch vehicle Soyuz-2 for the flight of tourists into space." They added that the implementation of all work on the creation of space technology will be carried out at the expense of space tourists.

Roscosmos noted that the new contract will additionally load RSC Energia capacities, Progress RCC, TsENKI and other enterprises.

Roscosmos launches a project on the Gagarinsky route by tourists on Earth

The head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin said that this would reduce the time required to prepare for the flight to those who want to see Earth from space.
MOSCOW, February 19. / TASS /. Future space tourists will be able to repeat the flight of Yuri Gagarin, circling the Earth in one turn. This project launches Roskosmos, said on Tuesday the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

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“We are launching a project to fly around the Earth along the short Gagarin route, which will allow us to shorten the time spent on preparing for the flight to see our planet from space,” Rogozin wrote on Twitter .

miketheterrible wrote:It will live on. And I doubt it was 6 people for an entire project.  So energomash will find others willing.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:....