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Russia moves PTK/Fed spacecraft to single-stick kerolox LV


RedKraken

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It caught me by surprise.

Feels like they are backpedalling a bit going for a cheap expendable.

Maybe not. Single stick seems to be to way forward cost-wise.

It cant compete with F9, even at $50M per launch......

Maybe its just cheaper, quicker to market and less risk than a new methane LV?

GSE and pad will be simpler than for angara.

The only major risk part looks like being the spacecraft itself.

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On ‎17‎.‎08‎.‎2017 at 1:58 PM, NSEP said:

Reminds me of Zenit. Interesting.

"Fat" 4.1 m Zenit developed with Kazakhstan under Sunkar.

1 hour ago, Alcentar said:

Can safely assume that the Russian cosmonautics is beating in agony, Angara is a dead project like this one...

Well, Angara still pretends it's alive, and another launch is promised within a year.

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The russian space industry has certainly suffered some setbacks.

Proton grounding. Engine investigations. Funding cuts. Vostochny cost overruns.

Angara development right alongside the Falcon9 paradigm shift.

On the positive side, they still provide the only crewed access to ISS, rd-180s for atlas V, and entire soyuz vehicles for ESA.

They still do supply runs to the ISS and GTO sat lifts with proton. 

But in 5 years time, things will be different.

Barring global disasters/conflict, we are likely to see crewed LV alternatives for ISS, Vulcan and ITSy prelims, and Falcon 9 running a higher cadence.

FH, Ariane 6 and possibly new vehicles from china and india.

Interesting times.

Edited by RedKraken
ULAs rocket is vulcan not vulcan2
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Not to offend somebody, but the most recent Shenzhou flights took place in 2013 and 2016, while 18 crewed Soyuzes have been launched.

India, ESA, Japan still haven't launched anybody themselves at all.

Orion looks too good to be an ISS taxi, while its interplanetary plans change every year, mostly with reduction, and with very unclear ideas of a lunar base itself.

Dragon v2 is still an old exhibition mockup and a single launchpad abort test of something capsule-like.
(Still no Dragon have docked to ISS). Rocket landing is gone, Red Dragon looks, too.
With strange ideas about ITS (looking like a mega-Dragon-v2) looking like "let's dream about Mars instead of the dull reality"...

Dreamchaser is still chasing a dream, afaik.

Mostly CST-100 looks something really viable.
In case if ISS still requires 6+ crew.

So, PTKNP/Federation just looks following the mainstream, not an outsider.

P.S.
I guess, Soyuzes and Proton will live long.

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