tater Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightfury Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Looks not good... again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insert_name Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/26/angolas-first-communications-satellite-ready-for-launch-tuesday/ this could be the third consecutive failure related to the fregat stage yes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canopus Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Doesn't look good for all those ambitious future moon probes Roscosmos is hoping to launch. They all seem to rely heavily on Lavochkin and their Fregat stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 Fregat did it's job, though, this seems like a failure of the sat, not the transfer stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insert_name Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Hard to tell at this point, however satilites have been fried by the RCS before, among other issues Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Probably, Angosat got a short circuit.https://translate.google.ru/translate?hl=ru&sl=ru&tl=en&u=www.interfax.ru/russia/593746 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 56 minutes ago, insert_name said: https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/26/angolas-first-communications-satellite-ready-for-launch-tuesday/ this could be the third consecutive failure related to the fregat stage yes? Nope, stage sep went nominal at 6:54 MSK, the failure happened during solar panel deployment hours later. 29 minutes ago, insert_name said: Hard to tell at this point, however satilites have been fried by the RCS before, among other issues The past incident involved a canister of nanosats mounted precariously close to the business side of Fregat and thus its RCS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 (edited) It's not yet clear whether the previous accident (that one with Frigate and 19 sats) was caused by the cosmodrome azimuth or not.https://translate.google.ru/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&u=www.interfax.ru/russia/593805&edit-text= ("Union" in the title should be read as "Soyuz". Google translate is so translate...) https://translate.google.ru/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&u=www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/28/12/2017/5a44b7549a7947f2cef035f9?from=main&edit-text= Edited December 28, 2017 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 1 hour ago, kerbiloid said: It's not yet clear whether the previous accident (that one with Frigate and 19 sats) was caused by the cosmodrome azimuth or not. To further complicate things, the "wrong cosmodrome" theory has already achieved meme status and it's difficult and possibly career-threatening to say anything against it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 (edited) Communication with AngoSat satellite restoredMore:http://tass.com/science/983564 Edited December 28, 2017 by sh1pman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 1 hour ago, sh1pman said: Communication with AngoSat satellite restoredMore:http://tass.com/science/983564 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 6 hours ago, sh1pman said: Communication with AngoSat satellite restoredMore:http://tass.com/science/983564 Quote the source said. TASS has not yet received official confirmation of this information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 (edited) 7 hours ago, kerbiloid said: MOSCOW, December 29. /TASS/. Contact with Angola’s AngoSat satellite has been restored, Russia’s Energia Rocket and Space Corporation said in a statement, adding that according to the telemetry data, the satellite’s systems were operating normally.More:http://tass.com/science/983627 Statement on Energia site Edited December 29, 2017 by sh1pman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumpus Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 16 hours ago, DDE said: "this is how we fix problems on Russian Space Station" That was also the recommend repair if the launch system of the LEM failed (bang on the motor until it worked). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Roscosmos has contracted 10 launches with several hundred OneWeb sats. https://translate.google.ru/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&u=www.interfax.ru/russia/593990&edit-text= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 On 29.12.2017 at 5:58 PM, kerbiloid said: Roscosmos has contracted 10 launches with several hundred OneWeb sats. https://translate.google.ru/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&u=www.interfax.ru/russia/593990&edit-text= They gonna need a better bishop this time, otherwise some of those sats might end up on the bottom of the ocean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 (edited) Looks like Russia is developing a reusable SSTO rocket. It’ll use an aerospike engine (LH2/LOX) and will be made of carbon fiber materials. https://www.rt.com/news/414819-russia-space-reusable-rocket/ Edited January 2, 2018 by sh1pman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 3 hours ago, sh1pman said: Looks like Russia is developing a reusable SSTO rocket. It’ll use an aerospike engine (LH2/LOX) and will be made of carbon fiber materials. https://www.rt.com/news/414819-russia-space-reusable-rocket/ Makeyev are an outsider to the "real" space industry; they're SLBM guys, not space guys. They'll never manage to even get close to the domain of Energiya and Khrunichev. Not to mention, Energomash appears to have its own grandiose plans involving kerolox pulse-detonation aerospikes. As to carbon fibre, sounds like Gravimol or Gravimol-B - old-school carbon-carbon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 1 hour ago, DDE said: Makeyev are an outsider to the "real" space industry; they're SLBM guys, not space guys. They'll never manage to even get close to the domain of Energiya and Khrunichev. Not to mention, Energomash appears to have its own grandiose plans involving kerolox pulse-detonation aerospikes. As to carbon fibre, sounds like Gravimol or Gravimol-B - old-school carbon-carbon. Still sounds interesting. I'd like to see aerospike engines on real rockets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 3, 2018 Author Share Posted January 3, 2018 The Salyut-7 movie is on Amazon Prime, BTW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 (edited) 47 minutes ago, tater said: The Salyut-7 movie is on Amazon Prime, BTW. Youtube's pay-by-view had it for a while. Snatched a physical disk earlier this week, though. They haven't done particularly well on the financial side. Edited January 3, 2018 by DDE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 3, 2018 Author Share Posted January 3, 2018 Nice thing is that if you have prime, it's free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 http://russianspaceweb.com/sea-launch-2018.html S7 Space posts a (vague) Sea Launch manifest for 2019-2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) If S7 (former Siberia) succeeds, it will become the first regular airlines company flying into space. They should return their old leavry for planes rockets. (Green background with a crowd of people.) Spoiler Edited January 5, 2018 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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