insert_name Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 1 minute ago, DDE said: Nobody tried landing rockets vertically before Elon Musk. Although mostly they're agitated by carbon composite construction. I think they are forgetting new sheperd also a hydrolox ssto with an areospike is very different from a metholox tsto with engine clusters other than the reusabilty and composite tanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 (edited) 8 hours ago, DDE said: Nobody tried landing rockets vertically before Elon Musk. Long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... 1995 Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Edited January 25, 2018 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 3 hours ago, kerbiloid said: Long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... It was sarcasm! The fifties didn't happen either! (I couldn't find a better picture in time) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxwellsDemon Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 (edited) Let's not forget this little beauty, albeit an airplane... (Convair 'Pogo'. Pilots hated 'backing' in for a landing...) (This looks very Kerbalesque itself, come to think of it!) Edited January 25, 2018 by MaxwellsDemon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 2 hours ago, MaxwellsDemon said: Let's not forget this little beauty, albeit an airplane... Somebody didn't. The SpaceX of the 1990s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxwellsDemon Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Good old Roton. Bizarre machine, with a name that sounds like the villain on a kids' cartoon show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Augustus_ Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 1 hour ago, DDE said: Somebody didn't. The SpaceX of the 1990s. I think it's unfair to compare them to SpaceX because they never even flew Roton..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 3 minutes ago, _Augustus_ said: I think it's unfair to compare them to SpaceX because they never even flew Roton..... But the hype was there. At least, I hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 (edited) A little moar about Korona (Crown). Spoiler ru:https://www.popmech.ru/technologies/363532-russkiy-kosmos-proekt-korona-i-drugie-razrabotki-grc-makeeva/ https://life.ru/t/наука/1075747/siekrietnoie_oruzhiie_roskosmosa_--_vozvrashchaiemyi_kosmichieskii_korabl_korona https://translate.google.ru/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&u=www.popmech.ru/technologies/363532-russkiy-kosmos-proekt-korona-i-drugie-razrabotki-grc-makeeva/&edit-text= https://translate.google.ru/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&u=life.ru/t/наука/1075747/siekrietnoie_oruzhiie_roskosmosa_--_vozvrashchaiemyi_kosmichieskii_korabl_korona&edit-text= Spoiler P.S. I would like all such rockets had those cute large fins/legs like in 1950s fiction. P.P.S. Not sure if the concave bottom like on the middle picture is a thing. It should be convex, shouldn't it? Edited January 28, 2018 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 @kerbiloid I'll never forget that Popmech used Kerbal Space Program to depict Makeeyev's Rossiyanka. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 Launch coming up, window 29th - Feb 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 Progress to ISS Feb 11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Well, at least now we've got two integration facilities working in tandem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MaxwellsDemon Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 You can definitely see the influence of Baikonur pad #1 (Gagarin's Start) in the design of that flame trench! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 http://online.roscosmos.ru/ (more vid links) Launch is in under 50 minutes (7 after the hour) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 liftoff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedKraken Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 from Chris Bergin @ NSF http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43776.80 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 17 hours ago, MaxwellsDemon said: You can definitely see the influence of Baikonur pad #1 (Gagarin's Start) in the design of that flame trench! Uhm... it's an R-7-pattern launch facility? Except for the mobile tower and the entire thing not rotating (which requires a roll maneuver), it's the vanilla Sputnik-era set-up by Barmin with very minor additions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxwellsDemon Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 3 hours ago, DDE said: Uhm... it's an R-7-pattern launch facility? Except for the mobile tower and the entire thing not rotating (which requires a roll maneuver), it's the vanilla Sputnik-era set-up by Barmin with very minor additions. Precisely. I like seeing the design lineage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 17 minutes ago, MaxwellsDemon said: Precisely. I like seeing the design lineage. It's funnier when you see recycling. Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxwellsDemon Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 (edited) Well, that just makes sense. They poured a lot of concrete for those N-1 pads... why not put them to another use? (I can't see the third image at the moment, but I'm betting it's Buran/Energiya.) Someone ought to do a biography of Barmin. He seems rather under-represented for the work he did, and I'd like to see more of his plans for "Barmingrad" (lunar base).... Edited February 1, 2018 by MaxwellsDemon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 42 minutes ago, DDE said: It's funnier when you see recycling. The place is cursed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB666 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 1 hour ago, kerbiloid said: The place is cursed... I don't know it would make a great back drop to some Mad-Max x Space genre of Movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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