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23 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

A commission investigates the details and works out the plans of the manufactured crafts redistribution between other buildings.

Roscosmos is fast running out of ground to stand on. Literally.

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https://www.interfax.ru/russia/771877

The Executive Director for the Crewed Programs of Roscosmos Sergei Krikalyov has left his post and become an Adviser of its CEO.

New Executive Director is Alexander Bloshenko, the former Director for Science,

Krikalyov was the last cosmonaut among the Roscosmos tops.

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Other sources tell that Krikalyov confirmed the assumptions that he is dismissed du to his disagreement with the planned filming of the first real space movie.

He presumes that it would be better to do moar science instead.

 

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Imho, the science will not run away, but the first space movie can be only once in the Universe history.

P.S.
Unless we presume it's pulsating.

P.P.S.
On the other hand, if the Universe is pulsating, it's even more important to film it, otherwise on every Universe reborn, Tom Cruise will be the first actor in the space again and again.

 

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19 hours ago, tater said:

So those of you more in the know about Russian plans, is this actually a thing?

They've shown isogrid hull sections, they've got the boosteed RD-171MV halfway through the testing program, they've even cut metal for Oryol without the design neing properly finalized.

MMKK Pilot is something new. Search shows a November 2020 tender for a feasibily study of some sort of a winged reusable vehicle.

https://www.rts-tender.ru/poisk/id/l0995000000220000061-1/

On what could be a completely unrelated note, Japan has arrested a suspected Russian agent who may have been leaking info on X-37B.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/shutoken-news/20210612/1000065653.html

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On 6/14/2021 at 11:09 PM, tater said:

So those of you more in the know about Russian plans, is this actually a thing?

 

It’s an old design, from at least 2016. The engine is an upgraded engine from Energia boosters, they did some static fire tests. Upper stage will use the same engine as Soyuz-2. Rogozin speaks about the rocket on every talk or interview, that it’s a next generation launcher that will replace Soyuz rockets. Obviously, there’s nothing “next gen” about it, it’s not even partially reusable. Amur is FAR more interesting.

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The Zenit has been a pretty reliable launcher AFAIK, so nothing really wrong with modernizing it a la Soyuz. Then again, claiming it as a next generation rocket seems a bit dubious. Kinda like saying Iran's Saeqeh is a completely new plane. Everyone knows they are lying, but its good for PR.

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2 hours ago, .50calBMG said:

The Zenit has been a pretty reliable launcher AFAIK, so nothing really wrong with modernizing it a la Soyuz. Then again, claiming it as a next generation rocket seems a bit dubious. Kinda like saying Iran's Saeqeh is a completely new plane. Everyone knows they are lying, but its good for PR.

You say "lying", I say "speak perfect bureaucratese". That's on top of "generation" being ill-defined and usually defined in a nation-specific way, often amounting to "the next model we have adopted".

It's also not impossible, if difficult, to push an airframe into the next commonly recognized fighter generation, although it may require pretty radical upgrades, such as MiG-21-97 with a MiG-29's engine.

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Mixed signals whether the recent NOTAMs at Plesetsk were the test of Sarmat or a hitherto unreported Osina-RV ICBM.

https://avia.pro/news/pervyy-pusk-rakety-sarmat-sostoitsya-v-techenie-sutok

https://avia.pro/news/v-rossii-vedutsya-razrabotki-raketnogo-kompleksa-15p182-osina-rv

In the former case, lack of official bluster would be puzzling.

Spoiler

Or not, if we consider today's big event.

 

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https://www.interfax.ru/russia/772383

The Director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems, Oleg Orlov, stated that in future they are going to study the childbirth in space.

The regeneration and fertility of the gametes, the embryo development, etc, let alone the childbirth process itself.

The modern studies show significant problems for the embryo, especially in the hypomagnetic environment.

"In deep space the absence of magnetic field is very important. 
In this conditions the embryo faces very significant development problems, especially in cardiovascular system".

The experiments also show that similar defects present in next generations of the test animals.

"We have seen that the third generation has even more marked changes than the first one".

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The Martian and Venusian colonies kinda oops.

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1) The currently designed Russian modules are of absolutely same scale as their USA counterparts,

2) The Starship is yet not a proven project to make somebody's own Starship.

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And he speaks English like I write it, lol

 

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2 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

2) The Starship is yet not a proven project to make somebody's own Starship.

At which point will you agree that it’s a proven project? Orbital flight? Reuse of an orbital starship?

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