Russian Space Program: News & Discussion #2

Big_Gazza wrote:
but that fecking 5th-columnist dirtbag Anatoly Zak takes the opportunity to smear Russia again...

And not a single person would pay attention to it if only Roskosmos bothered to hire a graphic artist and a blogger

Nibiru wrote:

And not a single person would pay attention to it if only Roskosmos bothered to hire a graphic artist and a blogger

Indeed, Management of Roscosmos has been paying very little attention to stuffs that actually matter. It makes one wonder if they are actually serious in the things they do. They leave so many loopholes that enemies of Russia can exploit whether its a simple pr stunt for the agency to actual security in its facilities (recent drill incident). The current situation is pretty upsetting

Roscosmos set to make launches 100% successful this year


MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. The supervisory board of Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos on Thursday set the task of making all of this year’s launches 100% successful, according to the office of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, who chaired the meeting of the company’s supervisory board.

On top of that, the board tasked the company with 100% implementation of the state procurement order and of the import substitution program.

During the meeting, the board approved the company’s financial plan for 2019 and key indicators of efficiency, which will be used to assess the efficiency of the company’s leadership this year.
"The main indicators include: the share of high-tech civilian and dual-purpose production should be at 49% this year, the implementation of the state procurement order tasks - at 100%, the implementation of the import substitution program - at 100% and the success of launches - at 100%," the source said.

Among last year’s most notable emergency situations was the aborted launch of the manned Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Following a smooth liftoff, a malfunction occurred between the separation of the first and second stages, and the crew was forced to abort the flight and switch to ballistic descent. The spacecraft ended up landing safely in the Kazakh steppe, with the crew unharmed. It was the first emergency situation with the launch of a manned spacecraft over the past 35 years.

http://tass.com/science/1046979

Nibiru wrote:Would be great if they live up to their statements

Roscosmos set to make launches 100% successful this year

Stéphane Israël
‏@arianespaceceo
Feb 27 I would like to express my gratitude to #Arianespace’s Russian partners – @roscosmos, #RKTs-Progress, #NPOLavochkin and #Tsenki – for their cooperation on Flight #VS21.

And why thy should not?

Nibiru wrote:Talk is cheap, if they are able to actually pull it off and achieve 100% success then good for them.
Dont get the wrong impression, I’m really hoping for Roscosmos to make great achievements in space, but they have to match their talk with concrete actions.

Nibiru wrote:

And why thy should not?

Talk is cheap, if they are able to actually pull it off and achieve 100% success then good for them.
Dont get the wrong impression, I’m really hoping for Roscosmos to make great achievements in space, but they have to match their talk with concrete actions.

In Roskosmos thinking about creating a rocket plane with a nuclear engine

MOSCOW, March 6 - RIA News . The enterprises of the rocket and space industry in the development of promising technology should focus on the creation of fundamentally new systems, such as nuclear-powered rocket planes, the Roscosmos proposal (a copy is available to RIA Novosti), compiled following a meeting on -space technology.
"Planning for future development of reusable space systems should also include the consideration of fundamentally new layouts, such as nuclear-powered rocket planes. Such systems may in the future change the market for space launch vehicles and create new market niches," the document says.
The development of the new technology, it is noted in the document, should be carried out, including using the experience of creating the Buran, Bor ships, winged Baikal stages and the MRKS for the Angara rocket.
Earlier it was reported that the resident of the Skolkovo fund, the company Ison, is developing a project of a reusable rocket plane designed for flights in the atmosphere and space at hypersonic speeds. It is assumed that the device will be able to fly at altitudes of up to 160 kilometers at speeds of seven sweeps, or to bring spacecraft into orbit at an altitude of up to 500 kilometers. Each such hypersonic device is designed for at least 50 flights.
Later, at the disposal of RIA Novosti, an image of a model of this drone appeared.
It was also reported that in Russia, since 2010, the project is underway to create a transport and energy module based on a megawatt-class nuclear power plant. The Roskosmos enterprise is operating on the engine by the Keldysh Center along with the enterprises of Rosatom. The use of a nuclear engine in spacecraft is being worked out by another enterprise in the rocket and space industry - Arsenal Design Bureau. Earlier, the state corporation Roskosmos in one of its videos demonstrated the conceptual image of a new spacecraft with a nuclear power plant.

Soviet spacecraft with a nuclear engine

The development of a hypersonic spacecraft with a nuclear engine began in the USSR in the mid-1970s. Thanks to the atomic facility on board, its capabilities became almost endless. The project called "M-19" confidently developed in the design bureau Myasishchev.

Earlier it was reported that in 2019 six launches of Proton-M missiles from the Baikonur cosmodrome are planned. The rocket is scheduled to operate until 2025. During this time about 20 rocket launches are planned.

“Comprehensive work to ensure the reliability of launches of the Proton-M rocket will be continued. The management of Roskosmos State Corporation and the Khrunichev Center decided to develop a similar program aimed at improving the reliability and efficiency of the Proton-M launch vehicle and the Briz-M upper stage for the next three years - 2019-2021, ”says in a message posted on the website of the Khrunichev Center.


Within the framework of the program, about 60 measures were implemented, including: identification, analysis and elimination of defects, malfunctions in the process of production and operation of rocket and space equipment; adjustment of design and operational documentation; measures to improve the quality of components of the Proton-M rocket and the upper stage.


The results of their implementation are obvious today - from May 2015 to the present, 14 successful launches of Proton-M launch vehicles have taken place, - the words of the Deputy Director General of the Khrunichev Center for Foreign Economic Activity Andrei Pankratov are cited.

Hole wrote:Don´t forget an alarm system.

kvs wrote:

Hole wrote:Don´t forget an alarm system.

Better yet, automatic purge system.   So as to flush the Yanqui saboteurs into space.

"Roscosmos" began to prepare the robot "Fedor" to fly to the ISS

MOSCOW, March 6 - RIA News. Roskosmos will soon prepare the Fedor robot for flight on the ISS on the Soyuz unmanned spacecraft that will go into space this summer, Alexander Bloshenko, adviser to the head of Roscosmos on science, told reporters.
“Fedor, or rather his modification, which will fly to the Federation, is one story. We are working on this issue and planning. As for the question of flying to the Soyuz, this issue is being worked out within the framework of the launch schedule, which we are given, if a decision is made on the manned spacecraft Soyuz MC. In the near future, a specific format of this flight will be tested at the Baikonur cosmodrome, ”he said, without specifying details.

Earlier, the executive director of the NGO "Android Technology" Yevgeny Dudorov told RIA Novosti that the developers of the Fyodor robot conducted its preliminary preparation for the flight to the ISS on the Soyuz spacecraft.
Last year, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti that Roskosmos was considering the possibility of flying two robots at once to the International Space Station on the Soyuz MS unmanned vehicle in 2019. As reported, the project received the name "cyberkick".
Then it was reported that the landing of the Fedor robot in the Soyuz spacecraft was demonstrated to the head of the Roscosmos state corporation, Dmitry Rogozin.