Russian Space Program: News & Discussion #2

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

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

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.

Big_Gazza wrote:2018 would have had a 100% success rate if it wasn't for the shaved ape who fecked up the strap-on on Soyuz MS-10.

Big_Gazza wrote:Roscosmos was extremely unlucky not to achieve a spotless 2018.

Isos wrote:I just had an idea. Maybe it was already discussed here.

What about using Typhoon subs to launch satelittes with SLBM converted for satelitte launches.

They already have the infrastructures for loading, the subs, and the missiles. The missile could even fall back in the water and probably float and be reused.

Cold launch also keeps safe the launch pad which is the sub.

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.

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.

Roscosmos CEO issues orders to install CCTV cameras on Russian segment of ISS

More:
http://tass.com/science/1047725

And who is going to sit through all that video to catch bad behaviour...

The Americans have also copied Soviet space suit design too...