Project Mir station complex / UR-500 family

[Astronautical achievement]

I think due to budget reasons, it will stay on the already developed Angara A5, rather than developing new tech for Soyuz-5. Originally, they where planning on using a re-used TKS derived manned spacecraft on the Angara A5.
Photos by the legendary Anatoly Zak

 

[MaxBuzz]

A question, is the Orel spacecraft still planned to be launched on an Irtysh (Soyuz-5) rocket or it will stay on the Angara A5 as originally planned?

I know about the Soyuz-5 launch pad, just that it looks like a Buran launch pad

Angara A5 TKS legendary Anatoly Zak

I have no idea who it is

 

[Astronautical achievement]

Anatoly Zak is from Russian Space Web, an excellent recourse for anything related to Russian Space
Here is the website

 

[MaxBuzz]

I have no idea who it is

description fits Angara-A3 (but not planning to use it.)

 

[Astronautical achievement]

Also, an interesting Diagram of the Vostochny Angara Launch site, taken from a Roscosmos video I found:

Its got a flame trench that kind of looks like the UKSS flame trench in Baikonur

 

[MaxBuzz]

not enough snow

 

[MaxBuzz]

RD-191 engines are too powerful, the rocket is unnaturally fast

 

[MaxBuzz]

often a very interesting car Maz-543 comes across in the photo

 

[Astronautical achievement]

That does not look like a car. That looks like a truck. And not just any truck, but a Soviet truck.

 

[MaxBuzz]

 

[MaxBuzz]

Angara A5P

 

[MaxBuzz]

Molniya rocket (needed to study Venus)

 

[Astronautical achievement]

Oooh. Do you plan on making Plesetsk Cosmodrome for Molniya and Soyuz U launches?
I think it would be really cool to simulate Zenit reconisance spacecraft launches (Zenit spacecraft are basically Vostoks Voskhods with a film camera instead of a cosmonaut and the respective cosmonaut's chair)

 

[MaxBuzz]

Oooh. Do you plan on making Plesetsk Cosmodrome for Molniya and Soyuz U launches?
I think it would be really cool to simulate Zenit reconisance spacecraft launches (Zenit spacecraft are basically Vostoks Voskhods with a film camera instead of a cosmonaut and the respective cosmonaut's chair)

I want to create Venera spacecraft they were all launched from Baikonur

 

[Astronautical achievement]

Ah I see. Mabey someday we'll get a Plesetsk addon...

I'm sure it's hard work to implement spacecraft as it is, let alone create entire cosmodromes!

 

[Astronautical achievement]

You mean that one ?

I have 2 weeks winter holidays tomorrow, I'll make my best to release an usable version of CZ-5 & UR-500K. I guess I can release the rockets first, and the towers later (those last ones require a lot of work).

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Any updates on this yet? If so, how s this going?

 

[Gargantua2024]

Ah I see. Mabey someday we'll get a Plesetsk addon...

I'm sure it's hard work to implement spacecraft as it is, let alone create entire cosmodromes!

Plesetsk and Vostochniy had never been much detailed in Orbiter as Baikonur does before, but I'd love to fly from there someday

 

[Piorun]

I want to create Venera spacecraft they were all launched from Baikonur

Some reference drawings for Venera and for Luna 3 (a.k.a. the Probe )

 

[MaxBuzz]

Venera-4 (spirit of the era is well conveyed by leather belts)

 

[Gargantua2024]

Nice. Also, Venera 3 to 8 have the same bus design as Venera 4