PeterRoss
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I'm a bit sceptical about ten days behind schedule. If it were just ten days they wouldn't even mention it. Multiply it by any number you wish and you'll be closer to the truth. :dry:
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I'm a bit sceptical about ten days behind schedule. If it were just ten days they wouldn't even mention it. Multiply it by any number you wish and you'll be closer to the truth. :dry:
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Same reaction, 10 days seem a bit ridiculous, 1000 days would be a more credible order of magnitude...
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Those are better news, way to go : :thumbup:
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Another interesting article about that "Zenit affair" :
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Those are better news, way to go : :thumbup:
Russia to send woman to space in 2014
Russia to send woman to space in 2014: Russia will send a female cosmonaut into space for the first time in two decades next year, an official at the space training centre said Wednesday. Yelena Serova, 36 and a professional cosmonaut, "is getting ready for a space flight in the second half of 2014," said Alexei Temerov, an official at Russia's Star City space training centre.
Cosmonaut Yelena Serova
Russia will this year celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first woman's trip to space. The feat was accomplished by Valentina Tereshkova on June 16, 1963, and was followed by that of another Soviet cosmonaut, Svetlana Savitskaya, who became the first woman to do a space walk.
But while NASA regularly sends female astronauts to work at the International Space Station (ISS), there has been only one Russian woman to fly to space since the early 1980s, Yelena Kondakova.
Kondakova spent five months in space on the since-retired Mir station in 1994-1995. She also travelled aboard the US Space Shuttle in 1997.
Yelena Serova will spend six months at the ISS, Temerov said.
"Her work programme at the ISS will not be anything extraordinary. It will be the usual research programme. A space walk is not planned," he added.
A second woman currently in training, 28-year-old Anna Kikina, has joined the cosmonaut program after becoming one of eight people selected in last year's recruitment drive.
Voice of Russia, AFP
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Another interesting article about that "Zenit affair" :
Interesting, current official prices on Protons...
In US-Dollars it would mean:
$36.5 million: Russia's preferred price for the Zenit.
$42.6 million: Ukraine's price for a Zenit.
$45.6 million: Proton
No comparisons to other cheap launch service providers of the US due to flamewar possibility please. Other threads.:tiphat:
In US-Dollars it would mean:
$36.5 million: Russia's preferred price for the Zenit.
$42.6 million: Ukraine's price for a Zenit.
$45.6 million: Proton
No comparisons to other cheap launch service providers of the US due to flamewar possibility please. Other threads.:tiphat:
N_Molson
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NASA extends contract on using Russian Soyuz spacecraft to deliver astronauts to ISS
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA have reached preliminary agreements on delivering foreign astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on board Russian Soyuz spacecraft after 2016, chief of Roscosmos's manned spaceflight programs Alexei Krasnov told Interfax-AVN.
"The existing contract envisions the use of Russian Soyuzes for delivering astronauts to the ISS in the period up to 2017, but a Roscosmos delegation reached an agreement with NASA on extending the agreement to the end of 2017. Foreign astronauts will fly along with Russian cosmonauts on board our Soyuzes in 2017 and slightly longer," Krasnov said.
NASA expects that commercial manned spacecraft will carry out one or two test flights to the ISS at the end of 2017, Krasnov said. However, before the completion of the entire set of safety tests, these spacecraft would not be used to send people into space, and NASA will use Russian Soyuzes for this purpose, he said.
(Interfax)
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA have reached preliminary agreements on delivering foreign astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on board Russian Soyuz spacecraft after 2016, chief of Roscosmos's manned spaceflight programs Alexei Krasnov told Interfax-AVN.
"The existing contract envisions the use of Russian Soyuzes for delivering astronauts to the ISS in the period up to 2017, but a Roscosmos delegation reached an agreement with NASA on extending the agreement to the end of 2017. Foreign astronauts will fly along with Russian cosmonauts on board our Soyuzes in 2017 and slightly longer," Krasnov said.
NASA expects that commercial manned spacecraft will carry out one or two test flights to the ISS at the end of 2017, Krasnov said. However, before the completion of the entire set of safety tests, these spacecraft would not be used to send people into space, and NASA will use Russian Soyuzes for this purpose, he said.
(Interfax)
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Research focuses on solving the technical problem of protecting interplanetary space crews from deep-space radiation
As preparations continue for interplanetary missions, scientists are to solve the core technical problem of protecting interplanetary space crews from deep-space radiation, said Lev Zelyony, the Russian Academy of Sciences' vice president and head of the Academy's Space Research Institute.*
A flight to the Moon, to say anything of a flight to Mars, is a far more difficult endeavor that fights on near-earth orbits. While working on International Space Station orbit space crews remain under the umbrella of the Earth's magnetic field, which basically protects all of us from space radiation," he said.
"But once we break beyond our planet's magnetic field, a new factor emerges - deep-space radiation which we will have to tackle," Zelyony said.
Long-duration expeditions to the ISS are extremely important in forging technical and biomedical solutions for creating a reliable radiation shielding to the crews of interplanetary spacecraft, he said.
Zelyony supported the federal space agency Roscosmos's proposal for nominating the ISS project for Nobel Peace Prize.
"Cooperation in space is evolving into a very important factor. The ISS is perhaps the most vivid symbol of this trend," the academician said.
Cooperation in space involves data exchanges and "the construction of a high-cost sophisticated technical facility. It could only have been built in a joint effort," Zelyony said.
Russia is an equitable participant in the ISS project, he said.
"Not all space projects with Russia's participation are like this. Quite often Russia plays the role of a ferry operator for putting complex and expensive foreign satellites into orbit. The ISS is a totally different project in which Russia is playing a leading role," Zelyony said.
"ISS missions give birth to purely friendly human relationships. People who have traveled to space together remain tied to each other for the rest of their lives," he said.
Interfax.
As preparations continue for interplanetary missions, scientists are to solve the core technical problem of protecting interplanetary space crews from deep-space radiation, said Lev Zelyony, the Russian Academy of Sciences' vice president and head of the Academy's Space Research Institute.*
A flight to the Moon, to say anything of a flight to Mars, is a far more difficult endeavor that fights on near-earth orbits. While working on International Space Station orbit space crews remain under the umbrella of the Earth's magnetic field, which basically protects all of us from space radiation," he said.
"But once we break beyond our planet's magnetic field, a new factor emerges - deep-space radiation which we will have to tackle," Zelyony said.
Long-duration expeditions to the ISS are extremely important in forging technical and biomedical solutions for creating a reliable radiation shielding to the crews of interplanetary spacecraft, he said.
Zelyony supported the federal space agency Roscosmos's proposal for nominating the ISS project for Nobel Peace Prize.
"Cooperation in space is evolving into a very important factor. The ISS is perhaps the most vivid symbol of this trend," the academician said.
Cooperation in space involves data exchanges and "the construction of a high-cost sophisticated technical facility. It could only have been built in a joint effort," Zelyony said.
Russia is an equitable participant in the ISS project, he said.
"Not all space projects with Russia's participation are like this. Quite often Russia plays the role of a ferry operator for putting complex and expensive foreign satellites into orbit. The ISS is a totally different project in which Russia is playing a leading role," Zelyony said.
"ISS missions give birth to purely friendly human relationships. People who have traveled to space together remain tied to each other for the rest of their lives," he said.
Interfax.
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Launch pad for Soyuz-2 carrier rocket at Vostochny to be completed in 2015
Launch pad for Soyuz-2 carrier rocket at Vostochny to be completed in 2015: The first stage of the project — construction of roads at the cosmodrome — has been completed. Russia’s Agency for Special Construction Project (Spetsstroy) said it was hoping to finish building the launch pad for the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket at the new Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far Eastern Amur region before the end of July 2015.
Spetsstroy Director Alexander Volosov visited the cosmodrome construction site on Monday, March 17, to assess progress and take a look of the facilities being built.
“The biggest attention was paid to the construction of the first launch complex for the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket, which is to be completed in late July 2015,” Spetsstroy’s press service said.
The Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Spetsstroy, the main contractor in this project, have approved a schedule of work. Spetsstroy is now stepping up work to make up for delays caused by bad weather.
The first stage of the project — construction of roads at the cosmodrome — has been completed. The second stage is proceeding as scheduled and is to be completed in December 2014. More than 400 social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities, 115 km of roads and 125 km of railroads will be built at the cosmodrome.
Vostochny should become operational in 2015 and start sending manned missions in 2018. The comsodrome is intended for launching automatic and piloted space missions under national, international and commercial programs. Its construction started in 2012 and the first launch is expected to be carried out in by 2015 on board Soyuz-2 light carrier rockets. By 2018, it will be ready to launch heavy Angara-5A rockets. The cosmodrome will also have infrastructure for future piloted missions.
Russia plans to launch its new Angara carrier rocket this year. The new carrier rocket will be used to launch both civilian and military spacecraft and for international space cooperation projects.
Ostapenko said earlier that work on the Angara carrier rocket was proceeding as scheduled.
“We stick to the schedule. Work is now in progress to create a medium lift launch vehicle and in parallel with that we will move over to the heavy version Angara-5. Work is also underway to create the Soyuz-2 rocket and space system, and we plan to use the builders’ capacities for constructing the launch pad for Angara,” Ostapenko said.
A super-heavy lift launch vehicle will be able to carry a payload of 80 tonnes to low-earth orbits. In the future, its capacity can be increased to 160 tonnes and more.
The launch site for super-heavy lift vehicles will be built at the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Khrunichev Space Centre Director-General Alexander Seliverstov said that the Angara development had reached the flight test stage and the focus was on finalizing the launch site in Plesetsk.
He said that light and heavy versions of Angara rockets would be launched in 2014 and work was proceeding as scheduled. “The first rocket is to be launched in 2014,” Seliverstov said.
Angara will allow Russia to launch all kinds of spacecraft to any orbit. Now Russia can launch heavy satellites only aboard Proton rockets from Baikonur, which it leases from Kazakhstan for about $115 million a year.
According to Khrunichev, a big advantage of the new rocket carrier is that “it is a universal space rocket system” capable of taking three types of rockets into space: light with a payload of up to 3.5 tonnes, medium with a payload of up to 14.6 tonnes, and heavy with a payload of up to 24.5 tonnes.
Medium lift and heavy lift launch vehicles can take payloads to the geostationary orbit as well.
The vehicle uses a unique engineering solution: the carrier can be assembled of the same modules. Their maximum number is five in a heavy version, three in a medium version, and one in a light version. They can all be launched form the same pad, not like now at Baikonur where each carrier requires its own launching pad.
The Angara class of rockets comprises four types of vehicles, with payload capacities ranging between 3.7 tones (light class, intended for low orbits) and 28.5 tonnes.
The rockets are based on a universal rocket module powered by the RD-191 engine using kerosene and liquid oxygen. One such module makes up the first stage of the light class Angara 1.1 and Angara 1.2 boosters. Their second stages are different. The medium and heavy class boosters Angara-3 and Angara 4 are an extension of the light class types with additional three or four universal modules. Depending on the specific tasks, the booster can be equipped with the Briz-M or KVRB accelerator units.
MOSCOW, March 17. /ITAR-TASS/Igor Ageyenko
Launch pad for Soyuz-2 carrier rocket at Vostochny to be completed in 2015: The first stage of the project — construction of roads at the cosmodrome — has been completed. Russia’s Agency for Special Construction Project (Spetsstroy) said it was hoping to finish building the launch pad for the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket at the new Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far Eastern Amur region before the end of July 2015.
Spetsstroy Director Alexander Volosov visited the cosmodrome construction site on Monday, March 17, to assess progress and take a look of the facilities being built.
“The biggest attention was paid to the construction of the first launch complex for the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket, which is to be completed in late July 2015,” Spetsstroy’s press service said.
The Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Spetsstroy, the main contractor in this project, have approved a schedule of work. Spetsstroy is now stepping up work to make up for delays caused by bad weather.
The first stage of the project — construction of roads at the cosmodrome — has been completed. The second stage is proceeding as scheduled and is to be completed in December 2014. More than 400 social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities, 115 km of roads and 125 km of railroads will be built at the cosmodrome.
Vostochny should become operational in 2015 and start sending manned missions in 2018. The comsodrome is intended for launching automatic and piloted space missions under national, international and commercial programs. Its construction started in 2012 and the first launch is expected to be carried out in by 2015 on board Soyuz-2 light carrier rockets. By 2018, it will be ready to launch heavy Angara-5A rockets. The cosmodrome will also have infrastructure for future piloted missions.
Russia plans to launch its new Angara carrier rocket this year. The new carrier rocket will be used to launch both civilian and military spacecraft and for international space cooperation projects.
Ostapenko said earlier that work on the Angara carrier rocket was proceeding as scheduled.
“We stick to the schedule. Work is now in progress to create a medium lift launch vehicle and in parallel with that we will move over to the heavy version Angara-5. Work is also underway to create the Soyuz-2 rocket and space system, and we plan to use the builders’ capacities for constructing the launch pad for Angara,” Ostapenko said.
A super-heavy lift launch vehicle will be able to carry a payload of 80 tonnes to low-earth orbits. In the future, its capacity can be increased to 160 tonnes and more.
The launch site for super-heavy lift vehicles will be built at the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Khrunichev Space Centre Director-General Alexander Seliverstov said that the Angara development had reached the flight test stage and the focus was on finalizing the launch site in Plesetsk.
He said that light and heavy versions of Angara rockets would be launched in 2014 and work was proceeding as scheduled. “The first rocket is to be launched in 2014,” Seliverstov said.
Angara will allow Russia to launch all kinds of spacecraft to any orbit. Now Russia can launch heavy satellites only aboard Proton rockets from Baikonur, which it leases from Kazakhstan for about $115 million a year.
According to Khrunichev, a big advantage of the new rocket carrier is that “it is a universal space rocket system” capable of taking three types of rockets into space: light with a payload of up to 3.5 tonnes, medium with a payload of up to 14.6 tonnes, and heavy with a payload of up to 24.5 tonnes.
Medium lift and heavy lift launch vehicles can take payloads to the geostationary orbit as well.
The vehicle uses a unique engineering solution: the carrier can be assembled of the same modules. Their maximum number is five in a heavy version, three in a medium version, and one in a light version. They can all be launched form the same pad, not like now at Baikonur where each carrier requires its own launching pad.
The Angara class of rockets comprises four types of vehicles, with payload capacities ranging between 3.7 tones (light class, intended for low orbits) and 28.5 tonnes.
The rockets are based on a universal rocket module powered by the RD-191 engine using kerosene and liquid oxygen. One such module makes up the first stage of the light class Angara 1.1 and Angara 1.2 boosters. Their second stages are different. The medium and heavy class boosters Angara-3 and Angara 4 are an extension of the light class types with additional three or four universal modules. Depending on the specific tasks, the booster can be equipped with the Briz-M or KVRB accelerator units.
MOSCOW, March 17. /ITAR-TASS/Igor Ageyenko
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http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6215
Or maybe "Roscosmos is a bunch of idiots" is the best name for the thread?
Hi! There is also interesting point of view!
http://www.topix.com/forum/world/south-korea/TQB7427R32DLASNDN
Useless payload of Roskosmos
Was the launch of “Angara” successful?
On the 27 of June, after another cancellation of the start, the Russian launch vehicle “Angara”, couldn't take off. Russian President V.Putin was presented during this unsuccessful launch. By the backup date the launch vehicle also was not ready.
Russian mass media began active discussion about the reasons of chronic failures of the project and systemic crisis in Russian space sphere.
According to Russian news agency “RIA Novosti”, the reason of terms postponement of the first testing launch from spaceport “Plesetsk”, was drain leakage of one of the valves.
At this time, on July, 9 in Russian mass media unexpectedly appeared several lines about successful launch of “Angara”. This is a little bit strange for such large-scale Russian project.
The specialist specialists doubt crept, was the launch of “Angara” successful?
According to unofficial information of Moscow-based Khrunichev state research & production center, actually the launch of “Angara” ended in failure because of troubles in separation of the first stage of the rocket. That was the reason of absenteeism target orbit, the space vehicle made a flight on a ballistic trajectory and fell near Kura Test Range (originally known as Kama, is a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile impact area located in northern Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East), according to official report of command aerospace defense of Russia. In fact a new generation of space rockets “Angara” is designed for outputting space crafts: satellites, manned spacecraft precisely in Earth orbit!
Besides, questioned the validity of the claim of “Angara” falling on Kamchatka. The matter is that at that day, July 9, at the official web-site of Russian news agency “Noviy Region” appeared the article about falling on the north of Sverdlovsk region not far from the town of Karpinsk fragments of a rocket. The official version was – these were the parts of launched the day before launch vehicle “Soyuz-2.1b”. But, maybe, the fact of falling of “Angara” is being hid from us? There is no any confirming information about the fragments of a rocket, which were found at the Kura Test Range.
Based on this, the additional journalist’s investigation was conducted by us. During the investigation our source of information in the North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD reported the following. They confirmed the “Angara” takeoff from the launch pad, but it was noted that its flight was held in an unusual for space vehicles trajectory. Besides, suspicion was caused by too short video report, which lasted less than 1 minute. So what was actually happened?
According to information, got from missile defense station (CA, USA) such a strange flight trajectory of Russian rocket, which was similar to ballistic, confused specialists, whereupon the ballistic missile defense was led to a state of high alert. According to American analysts, the problem of stage separation was likely originated by reason of defects in control system. This fact approved by data got from Khrunichev state research & production center.
As previously reported by Russian mass media, the launch of “Angara” was conducted without useful upload. But actually it was – in the form of the first stage which didn't separate.
It is worth saying that “Angara” has been designed during 20 years, and according to official statistics of Roskosmos for the year 2012, this project cost to the budget more than 160 billion Russian rubles, including the expenses of South Korea.
So what was the reason of repeated failures of domestic space rocket industry given the fact that “Angara” is not the first high-profile failure?
The “Angara” problem - is degradation of the whole branch, believe the experts.
Experts believe that the reasons of mistakes and miscalculation aren’t related to technical factors, the main reason is - inefficiency of the system of interaction between State and enterprises.
Chief Researcher of Institute of world economy and international relations of Russian Academy of Science, Maj.-Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin, who was a long period the Head of one of the Research Center of the Ministry of Defense, enumerates systemic problems of rocket-technical industry: “First of all, the necessary control over the quality of products, which was before, is not adjusted. Secondly, dramatically decreases the skill level and professionalism of staff. And, thirdly, the increase in the cost of space products is strongly influenced by corruption. And to my great regret, the account goes by tens of percent”.
All failures during the last several years are related to the quality of control processes in manufacturing, with its organization, with staff training – according to the CEO of United Rocket and Space Corporation (URSC) Ihor Komarov. “It’s impossible to solve all problems by appointing supervisor and adopting acceptance of production by military specialists. Defects are repeated and this is the proof of system degradation”, - said the CEO of URSC.
Though Russia gets unacceptably low profits in the space industry, this country is still one of the leaders in state spending in this sphere – stresses Russian newspaper “RBK daily”. “According to Space Report 2014, total state expenditures on space sphere in the world amounted to $74.1 billion (2013). The US expenditures were more than a half of the sum - $41.3 billion. Russian expenditures in this sphere increased by 14 times for the last 10 years and reached in 2013 $10 billion. Nowadays index of state expenditures on space per unit of GDP we are occupying the 1st place among the leading countries: US spent $25 on each $10,000 of GDP, China - $4, Russia - $47!” – is pointed out in the article.
On financing of the new state program of Russia “National Space Activity in 2013-2020” is planning to allot about 1.8 trillion of rubles. But the goals, which were set by the last program (its price was 0.5 trillion of rubles), weren’t achieved, stresses the newspaper. The share of Russia on world’s space rocket market increased on 1% instead of 10%, the share of new industrial equipment on enterprises increased on 12% instead of 35% and the share of Russian patents in the sphere of scientific research is about 1% (US has 50%). The number of satellites, which were placed in orbit, was about 47% of planned.
More than 70% of technological equipment in domestic space-rocket industry is over 20 years old, URSC admits. Expenditures on making of domestic satellites are more than 4 times higher of foreign analogues. Standards, operational and technical characteristics are staying very low, and the number of accidents is increasing.
All these facts are the reason of permanent reforms in space-rocket industry of Russia aimed to create “The United Rocket and Space Corporation”, or an attempt to get main role in the sphere by Khrunichev state research & production center, or the reluctance of founders of OJSC “The Progress State Research and Production Space Centre” (also known as TsSKB-Progress) (It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia in the city of Samara ) give way to Moscow competitors.
As a result, taking into consideration unsuccessful previous launches we can make a conclusion that when “key to ignition” is turned by KGB servicemen or by firefighter - rocket scientists are at a loose end.
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Russia Reorganizes Space Program Again, Ostapenko Out
The Russian government announced another restructuring of its space program management today. Most recently, responsibilities were split between the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, headed by Oleg Ostapenko, and the United Rocket and Space Corporation (URSC, or ORKK using its Russian initials) headed by Igor Komarov. Now the two parts will be combined and retain the name Roscosmos, but the new entity is described as a state corporation rather than an agency. Ostapenko is out. Komarov will run the new entity.
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Ostapenko was placed in charge of the space agency in October 2013, and URSC was formally created by presidential decree two months later. Komarov's impending appointment as Director General of URSC was announced in October 2013, but he did not officially take the position until March 2014. In between, he was a Deputy Director of Roscosmos. Prior to October 2013 he was CEO of Russia's AvtoVAZ, which manufactures automobiles.
That bifurcated management structure has lasted barely a year however. Russia's official news agency Itar-Tass reported today that the two entities will recombine. The name Roscosmos will be retained, but Itar-Tass described it as a "state corporation," that will "replace the federal space agency of the same name." Komarov won the job as CEO of the new Roscosmos. Itar-Tass said Ostapenko will be offered an "executive position" in industry.
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Russia Reorganizes Space Program Again, Ostapenko Out
The Russian government announced another restructuring of its space program management today. Most recently, responsibilities were split between the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, headed by Oleg Ostapenko, and the United Rocket and Space Corporation (URSC, or ORKK using its Russian initials) headed by Igor Komarov. Now the two parts will be combined and retain the name Roscosmos, but the new entity is described as a state corporation rather than an agency. Ostapenko is out. Komarov will run the new entity.
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Ostapenko was placed in charge of the space agency in October 2013, and URSC was formally created by presidential decree two months later. Komarov's impending appointment as Director General of URSC was announced in October 2013, but he did not officially take the position until March 2014. In between, he was a Deputy Director of Roscosmos. Prior to October 2013 he was CEO of Russia's AvtoVAZ, which manufactures automobiles.
That bifurcated management structure has lasted barely a year however. Russia's official news agency Itar-Tass reported today that the two entities will recombine. The name Roscosmos will be retained, but Itar-Tass described it as a "state corporation," that will "replace the federal space agency of the same name." Komarov won the job as CEO of the new Roscosmos. Itar-Tass said Ostapenko will be offered an "executive position" in industry.
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Russia to repeat Phobos-Grunt mission
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The Phobos-Grunt interplanetary probe launched into a near-Earth orbit in 2011 was unable to reach the trajectory of its flight to Mars due to an engine failure
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) plans to launch a new sample soil expedition to Mars’ satellite Phobos, according to a draft of Russia's new space program for 2016-2025 unveiled on Monday.
Under the document, the Mars-Grunt (Soil) expedition is planned for 2024 to deliver soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos to the Earth. The project is estimated at 10.3 billion rubles ($198 million).
This sum is twice as large as the amount stipulated in the draft federal space program prepared last year.
Roscosmos plans a new interplanetary expedition after a failure of its previous Phobos mission.
The Phobos-Grunt interplanetary probe was launched into a near-Earth orbit on November 9, 2011. The probe was expected to reach the Mars orbit and simultaneously land a module on Mars’ natural satellite Phobos for exploration and the delivery of soil samples to the Earth.
However, the interplanetary probe was unable to reach the trajectory of its flight to Mars due to an engine failure and stayed in the near-Earth orbit.
The probe's debris fell to the Earth on January 15. According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, the Phobos-Grunt probe’s fragments that did not burn in the dense layers of the atmosphere fell into the Pacific Ocean 1,250 km (777 miles) west of Wellington Island (Chile).
http://tass.ru/en/non-political/792919
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Russia, China agree on joint use of GLONASS, Beidou navigation systems
Russia, China to unify space technologies for manned flights to the Moon
Russia to Launch Large-Scale Space Projects With China
Russia Begins Mass Production of Glonass-K1 Navigation Satellites
Russia stops manufacturing of Glonass-M navigation satellites
July 30, 2015
Manufacturing of navigational satellites of the GLONASS-M family in the Krasnoyarsk territory has been rounded up and they will be replaced by the satellites of next-generation families - GLONASS-K and GLONASS-K2, a spokesman for the Informational Satellite Systems (ISS) company said on Thursday.
"The last GLONASS-M vehicle was manufactured under item No. 61 and placed in storage until a decision on its launch into orbit," he said. "It became the ninth satellite in the GLONASS reserve of vehicles kept on the ground."
At present, two-thirds of Russia’s orbital grouping consists of the satellites designed and manufactured by the ISS.
Apart from GLONASS, the company is also building the spacecraft for the Gonets, Express, and Yamal telecommunications systems. All in all, the company has built more than 1,200 satellites and forty space systems over the 55 years of its history.
It added GLONASS-M satellites to its line of products fifteen years ago. The first one was launched into orbit in 2003.
"They are the improved versions of their predecessors, the GLONASS family," he said. "The modernized version had an expanded term of warranty life - from three to seven years, and improved the quality of the navigation signal. The precision of satellite definitions of the Russian system has increased tenfold."
As of 2011, twenty-four GLONASS-M satellites have been put into orbit, the ISS press service said.
Glonass-M satellite production
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Russia to Build New Generation Space Surveillance Systems
Cutting-Edge Russian Space Surveillance System now Four Times More Capable
28.07.2015
A Russian-operated space surveillance system located in Tajikistan, Okno-M, has reached its full capacity, making it four times more powerful, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports.
Upgrades to Okno-M, an optoelectronic system for detecting space objects, have been completed and the system is operating at full capacity, a fresh announcement on the Russian Ministry of Defense site reveals. The Okno-M station, based in Tajikistan in Central Asia, is an integral part of the space surveillance network of the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces’ Space Command. The surveillance station successfully underwent state tests late in 2014.
The task of the upgraded system is to automatically gather information on space objects and monitor objects in space, including those in geostationary orbit, at a distance of 120 to 40,000 km. The newly-developed system, which was designed completely in Russia, possesses increased detection capabilities, better channel capacity and a wider range of characteristics for processing data on space objects, an announcement on the MoD website reads. The capabilities of the modernized complex are four times greater than those of its predecessor.
The optoelectronic station traces space objects solely at night. Sunlight is reflected from the objects, which provides the system with the necessary information. Okno-M is fully automated and has the ability to operate without human intervention, keeping track of both previously recorded and newly detected objects. When the system is in passive mode, its power consumption is fairly low: reportedly, it requires as much electricity as a 150-unit apartment block.
Construction of the previous Okno (meaning 'window' in Russian) station, one of the key elements of Russian space intelligence, commenced in 1980 in the clear sky zone in the Pamir Mountains near the Afghan border at a height of 2,200 meters above sea level.
Okno-M station
As a consequence of the civil war in Tajikistan, the construction of the site was halted from 1992, and the station became operational only in 1999 in test mode and from 2004 in combat mode.
Since 1999, Okno has detected and measured more than 10 million space objects, traced around 5,000 new high-orbital space objects, monitored 560 spacecraft orbit insertions, and recorded more than 200 maneuvers of various-purpose foreign spacecraft. Moreover, Okno-M operators participated in the evaluation of 25 foreign and domestic emergency situations.
In addition to the upgraded Okno-M station, in the next four years a range of new laser-optical and electronic systems for detecting space objects is due to be built.
By space objects, the military primarily means foreign military satellites, other spacecraft as well as space debris and natural astronomical objects.
In 2014, the Aerospace Defense Forces of Russia began operating a series of specialized surface laser-optical and radio engineering units for identifying objects beyond the earth's atmosphere.
The Aerospace Defense Forces were established on December 1, 2011, to monitor Russian airspace. The military group commands a united outer space global monitoring system which focuses on Earth satellites and the surveillance of all other space objects. It is expected that ten or more specialized space monitoring complexes will be deployed by 2018 in the Russian south, Siberia and the Russian Far East.
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150728/1025119227.html
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Russia to resume moon rocket engine production in Volga area
August 03, 2015
Russia's NK-33 engines previously developed for the Soviet moon rocket N-1 are planned to be used in Soyuz-2.1v light carrier rockets
The Samara-based Kuznetsov enterprise in the Volga area plans to launch the production of new rocket engines NK-33 previously developed for the Soviet moon rocket N-1 to use them in Soyuz-2.1v light carrier rockets, according to the company’s annual report published on Monday.
"In the period of 2014-2020, there are plans to organize the production of the NK-33 engine with the delivery of new NK-33 engines for Soyuz-2.1v rockets from 2019 in the interests of the Progress rocket and space center," the materials say.
The Soyuz-2.1v is a two-stage rocket designated together with the Volga acceleration unit to bring spacecraft into circular orbits with an altitude of up to 1,500 km and sun-synchronous orbits with an altitude of up to 850 km.
The main developer and manufacturer of the Soyuz-2.1v is the central specialized design bureau TsSKB-Progress. The first launch of a Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Aist satellite took place on December 28, 2013 from Russia’s Plesetsk cosmodrome.
http://tass.ru/en/economy/812324
Vostochny cosmodrome to be ready in time — contractor
August 07, 2015
The first launch from the new cosmodrome is scheduled for this year, and the construction should be over by November 30
A view of the fire circle at the Vostochny Cosmodrome
Facilities at the Vostochny cosmodrome are ready by 95%, head of the Dalspecstroy contracting company Yuri Volkodav said on Friday.
The first launch from the new cosmodrome is scheduled for this year, and the construction should be over by November 30.
"All contracts under the ‘launch minimum’ have been fulfilled," he said, explaining the ‘launch minimum, without which the cosmodrome cannot be working, is nine contracts, including a railway, a car road, a start and technical facilities, security and energy supplies.
The Vostochny cosmodrome will have two launch platforms, an airfield, facilities for crew members’ pre-launch preparation, oxygen-nitrogen and hydrogen plants, 115 kilometers of roadway and 125 kilometers of rail track.
Vostochny will be Russia’s first national civilian cosmodrome to ensure the country’s full access to outer space.
http://tass.ru/en/russia/813078
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Former Russian Presidential Adviser Named Roscosmos Deputy Chief
05.08.2015
The former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin was appointed deputy chief of the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos of government communications, local media reported Wednesday.
The Izvestia publication cites sources in the state-owned agency as saying a decision to appoint Sergei Dubik takes effect immediately.
Putin signed an executive order relieving Dubik, who has served as one of 10 presidential advisers since 2012, of his duties in February 2015.
Previously, Dubik headed a government anti-corruption commission in 2010 and became an Austria-based International Anti-Corruption Academy board member in late 2012.
In 2009-2012, Dubik headed the Presidential Civil Service and Personnel Directorate.
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150805/1025403659.html
Russia May Introduce Glonass-Based Navigation System for Light Aircraft
11.08.2015
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin claims that Russia may introduce a system of automatic dependent surveillance for light aircraft on the basis of Russia's Glonass satellite navigation network.
Russia may introduce a system of automatic dependent surveillance for light aircraft on the basis of Russia's Glonass satellite navigation network, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday.
All aircraft should have such a system installed, he added.
Rogozin suggested that the system be piloted in Moscow and the Moscow region as air traffic is heaviest in there.
On Saturday, nine people, including two minors, died when a seaplane collided with a light helicopter in the outskirts of Moscow. Aircraft of these classes are not required to be equipped with automatic dependent surveillance systems in Russia.
Glonass is a satellite navigation system operated by the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces.
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150811/1025642776.html
Kosmorobot
August 14, 2015
Russian scientists to work on assistant to cosmonauts in outer space
The technologies for making a robot to support outer-space activities of cosmonauts, called kosmorobot (space robot), will cost $38.5 million
Russia’s space authority, Roskosmos, and the Russian Academy of Sciences plan to invent a space-robot to assist cosmonauts in the outer space, the federal space program for 2016-2025 reads.
The document reads the technologies for making a robot to support outer-space activities of cosmonauts, called kosmorobot (space robot), will cost $38.5 million.
First tests in the space may be organized in 2021-2024, the program reads.
A previous version of the program, which was prepared in 2014, planned financing of $26.2 million for kosmorobot’s elements and units as well as prototypes and for their tests at the International Space Station.
http://tass.ru/en/non-political/814446
Russia to Revive Its Reusable Space Shuttle Program
20.08.2015
The idea is to reduce the cost of launching satellites and other equipment into space. The system, which is being developed under the Federal Space Program, is set to cost not less than 12.5 billion rubles ($185 mln).
The program is set to get financing from 2021 and last until 2025. In 2019, a mission requirement package is slated to be worked on.
The program envisions a partially reusable launch vehicle equipped with a winged booster stage. After lifting the second, expendable stage of the MRKS vehicle into the stratosphere, the reusable booster would separate and glide back to Earth to be prepared for its next mission.
Russia is set to develop a new Reusable Space Rocket System, or MRKS in Russian.
The launches will be operated from the Vostochny space launch center in the Russian Far East.
The Rocket System is being developed by Khrunichev Space Center in close cooperation with other Russian aerospace heavyweightssuch as NPO Molniya, TsAGI, and others.
According to Khrunichev's official website, the MRKS-1 is a partially reusable modular vertical launch vehicle based on a winged reusable first stage, featuring airplane configuration and returning to the launch area for horizontal landing on a class 1 airfield.
The MRKS-1 also includes disposable second stages and upper stages. The winged first stage is equipped with reusable liquid-propellant sustainers.
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
According to TsAGI, the MRKS-1's reusable first stage will allow for a high degree of reliability and safety and will make booster impact areas unnecessary. This will increase the effectiveness of future commercial operations. Under the Federal Space Agency’s specified requirements, the MRKS-1 is to deliver a wide range of payloads into outer space, weighing up to 35 metric tons and more.
A cycle of tests of several models of winged reusable rocket stages was completed in April 2013 with the use of TsAGI's UT-1M and T-117 wind tunnels. These winged stages are to become the reusable first stage of the MRKS-1.
The idea of using winged vehicles for space flight has been in the minds of space enthusiasts since the dawn of the space era.
Antonov An-225 aircraft flies with Buran space shuttle on external store
In Russia, Tsiolkovsky and Tsander considered airplanes among other means of reaching outer space.
Practical attempts to install rocket engines on winged vehicles were performed in the USSR and in Germany back in the 1930s.
Sergei Korolev and his colleagues at the Reactive Research Institute, RNII, worked on the RP-318 rocket glider equipped with a rocket engine.
In the USSR, Vladimir Chelomei, the head of the OKB-52 design bureau of the Ministry Aviation Industry, MAP, specialized in the development of winged cruise missiles. He was one of the first in the country to push the idea of a manned winged orbiter.
Also, from the mid-1960s, the Mikoyan design bureau was developing a small reusable spacecraft called Spiral. This mini-shuttle would have been launched on the back of a hypersonic aircraft, itself capable of reaching Mach 6 (or six times of the speed of sound). After separation from the carrier aircraft, the Spiral would be powered by an attached rocket stage.
At the beginning of the 1970s, the US made the Space Shuttle a primary project of its manned space program. According to NASA predictions, the Space Shuttle would replace the entire fleet of existing rockets and lower the cost of launching satellites.
In 1976, the Soviet government decided to respond with a similar spacecraft, Energia-Buran.
However after a single flight in 1988, the program quickly ran out of funds, as the Soviet Ministry of Defense fully realized the lack of purpose for the system, compared to its tremendous cost.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the program was essentially shut down and, in 1993, the head of NPO Energia, Yuri Semenov publicly admitted that the project was dead.
http://izvestia.ru/news/590165
05.08.2015
The former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin was appointed deputy chief of the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos of government communications, local media reported Wednesday.
The Izvestia publication cites sources in the state-owned agency as saying a decision to appoint Sergei Dubik takes effect immediately.
Putin signed an executive order relieving Dubik, who has served as one of 10 presidential advisers since 2012, of his duties in February 2015.
Previously, Dubik headed a government anti-corruption commission in 2010 and became an Austria-based International Anti-Corruption Academy board member in late 2012.
In 2009-2012, Dubik headed the Presidential Civil Service and Personnel Directorate.
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150805/1025403659.html
Russia May Introduce Glonass-Based Navigation System for Light Aircraft
11.08.2015
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin claims that Russia may introduce a system of automatic dependent surveillance for light aircraft on the basis of Russia's Glonass satellite navigation network.
Russia may introduce a system of automatic dependent surveillance for light aircraft on the basis of Russia's Glonass satellite navigation network, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday.
All aircraft should have such a system installed, he added.
Rogozin suggested that the system be piloted in Moscow and the Moscow region as air traffic is heaviest in there.
On Saturday, nine people, including two minors, died when a seaplane collided with a light helicopter in the outskirts of Moscow. Aircraft of these classes are not required to be equipped with automatic dependent surveillance systems in Russia.
Glonass is a satellite navigation system operated by the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces.
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150811/1025642776.html
Kosmorobot
August 14, 2015
Russian scientists to work on assistant to cosmonauts in outer space
The technologies for making a robot to support outer-space activities of cosmonauts, called kosmorobot (space robot), will cost $38.5 million
Russia’s space authority, Roskosmos, and the Russian Academy of Sciences plan to invent a space-robot to assist cosmonauts in the outer space, the federal space program for 2016-2025 reads.
The document reads the technologies for making a robot to support outer-space activities of cosmonauts, called kosmorobot (space robot), will cost $38.5 million.
First tests in the space may be organized in 2021-2024, the program reads.
A previous version of the program, which was prepared in 2014, planned financing of $26.2 million for kosmorobot’s elements and units as well as prototypes and for their tests at the International Space Station.
http://tass.ru/en/non-political/814446
Russia to Revive Its Reusable Space Shuttle Program
20.08.2015
The idea is to reduce the cost of launching satellites and other equipment into space. The system, which is being developed under the Federal Space Program, is set to cost not less than 12.5 billion rubles ($185 mln).
The program is set to get financing from 2021 and last until 2025. In 2019, a mission requirement package is slated to be worked on.
The program envisions a partially reusable launch vehicle equipped with a winged booster stage. After lifting the second, expendable stage of the MRKS vehicle into the stratosphere, the reusable booster would separate and glide back to Earth to be prepared for its next mission.
Russia is set to develop a new Reusable Space Rocket System, or MRKS in Russian.
The launches will be operated from the Vostochny space launch center in the Russian Far East.
The Rocket System is being developed by Khrunichev Space Center in close cooperation with other Russian aerospace heavyweightssuch as NPO Molniya, TsAGI, and others.
According to Khrunichev's official website, the MRKS-1 is a partially reusable modular vertical launch vehicle based on a winged reusable first stage, featuring airplane configuration and returning to the launch area for horizontal landing on a class 1 airfield.
The MRKS-1 also includes disposable second stages and upper stages. The winged first stage is equipped with reusable liquid-propellant sustainers.
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
According to TsAGI, the MRKS-1's reusable first stage will allow for a high degree of reliability and safety and will make booster impact areas unnecessary. This will increase the effectiveness of future commercial operations. Under the Federal Space Agency’s specified requirements, the MRKS-1 is to deliver a wide range of payloads into outer space, weighing up to 35 metric tons and more.
A cycle of tests of several models of winged reusable rocket stages was completed in April 2013 with the use of TsAGI's UT-1M and T-117 wind tunnels. These winged stages are to become the reusable first stage of the MRKS-1.
The idea of using winged vehicles for space flight has been in the minds of space enthusiasts since the dawn of the space era.
Antonov An-225 aircraft flies with Buran space shuttle on external store
In Russia, Tsiolkovsky and Tsander considered airplanes among other means of reaching outer space.
Practical attempts to install rocket engines on winged vehicles were performed in the USSR and in Germany back in the 1930s.
Sergei Korolev and his colleagues at the Reactive Research Institute, RNII, worked on the RP-318 rocket glider equipped with a rocket engine.
In the USSR, Vladimir Chelomei, the head of the OKB-52 design bureau of the Ministry Aviation Industry, MAP, specialized in the development of winged cruise missiles. He was one of the first in the country to push the idea of a manned winged orbiter.
Also, from the mid-1960s, the Mikoyan design bureau was developing a small reusable spacecraft called Spiral. This mini-shuttle would have been launched on the back of a hypersonic aircraft, itself capable of reaching Mach 6 (or six times of the speed of sound). After separation from the carrier aircraft, the Spiral would be powered by an attached rocket stage.
At the beginning of the 1970s, the US made the Space Shuttle a primary project of its manned space program. According to NASA predictions, the Space Shuttle would replace the entire fleet of existing rockets and lower the cost of launching satellites.
In 1976, the Soviet government decided to respond with a similar spacecraft, Energia-Buran.
However after a single flight in 1988, the program quickly ran out of funds, as the Soviet Ministry of Defense fully realized the lack of purpose for the system, compared to its tremendous cost.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the program was essentially shut down and, in 1993, the head of NPO Energia, Yuri Semenov publicly admitted that the project was dead.
http://izvestia.ru/news/590165
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This comes after the announcement that the Roskosmos budget was cut by 25% in the following years - the first manned launch from the new space port Vostochny has been pushed back to 2025.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meld...skrise-Bemannter-Flug-verzoegert-2790545.html
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meld...skrise-Bemannter-Flug-verzoegert-2790545.html
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That and the fact that NASA/ESA-sold Soyuz seats still earn a bunch of money. I'm quite sure that the attitude is "Soyuz = golden goose, let's not change anything that could kill it".
I don't think we're going to see a lot of progress under Putin's reign, who clearly doesn't seems interested by non-military space affairs.
I don't think we're going to see a lot of progress under Putin's reign, who clearly doesn't seems interested by non-military space affairs.
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Absolutely. Unless it is useful for political deals, it does not interest him. But he isn't that stupid. The ISS is the best way to prevent Russia from disappearing from the spaceflight map instantly. China is just waiting to be the new ISS partner. Other smaller nations are also interested. Who can be sure, that there will never be an Iranian astronaut (From Iran, I mean) visiting the ISS? Or a Cuban astronaut?
The USA are getting really close to have private companies ferrying everybody to the ISS, who is willed to pay the price and gets the permission. And the less the USA have a reason to maintain the ISS because of the Moon, Mars and More program, the less the USA will have a reason to prevent people from taking part... of course, assuming no braindead rules in the USA at that time. Nothing is better than letting others pay for your PR.
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Yes, the ISS is a technological display anyways, where nation say "we can do it".
But I'm not as optimistic as you are, I doubt that "private" companies offering manned flights to LEO are for soon... The worldwide economic situation is... not good to say the least.
And China is going to be in very serious trouble (economical, environnemental) : I fear that manned spaceflight is not going to become a priority for them.
But I'm not as optimistic as you are, I doubt that "private" companies offering manned flights to LEO are for soon... The worldwide economic situation is... not good to say the least.
And China is going to be in very serious trouble (economical, environnemental) : I fear that manned spaceflight is not going to become a priority for them.
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Seriously: The worlds economic situation is just healing despite all attempts to keep the illness. I would not put too much faith into its current key performance indicators or the models to explain them having any validity.
In the end, it is just a matter of will, how spaceflight will be like. Russia does not reduce spaceflight, because of the world economic situation and its effects on the Russian economic crisis in parallel. It does so because it simply has other goals to waste its money. The Russian federal budget does not shrink by 25%.
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I don't know what MAKS 2015 is, but it looks like a fun place to be.
Is the manned spacecraft there this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospective_Piloted_Transport_System
Is the manned spacecraft there this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospective_Piloted_Transport_System
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