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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia plans to create a long-term man-visited base on the Earth's natural satellite and study the moon with the help of robot avatars as part of its lunar program, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin told Sputnik.

https://sputniknews.com/science/201811061069536620-russia-moon-base-creation-robots-avatars/

At first I got all excited, but then I realized that it's Russia we're talking about...

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3 hours ago, sh1pman said:

At first I got all excited, but then I realized that it's Russia we're talking about...

Look, Rogozin even mentioned the elephant in the room (more expensive than Apollo)!

Anyway, I'm locked out of Reddit (sounds way too coincidental, I guess the Kremlin owes me a lot for tactical excrementsposting), so you'll have to substitute for r/space.

https://www.interfax.ru/world/636643

One of Zvezda's three main computers has crashed, still down as of three hours ago.

https://ria.ru/science/20181106/1532172710.html

Roscosmos may install CCTV on the Russian segment to track the movements of cosmonauts and astronauts.

https://ria.ru/space/20181104/1532121604.html

Progress MS-10's booster is to have the sensor pins replaced entirely, despite being cleared for flight.

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4 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Ah, so that’s how they make the orbital module round. :D

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2 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

They did that to MS-9, too. Didn’t help much.

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40 minutes ago, magnemoe said:

Its actually an cool idea with an inflatable orbital module, it also helps with hard dockings. 

It would be hilarious to watch :D Spaceship bouncing off the docking ring like a rubber ball LOL Let's not do that, though - too risky :P

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On 11/11/2018 at 12:37 PM, kerbiloid said:

Soooo... in other words, never.

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4 hours ago, MaverickSawyer said:

Soooo... in other words, never.

Never was much of a priority. Plus, it would be the pad for the superheavy, not the Soyuz-5.

Basic land survey for that pad began about a week ago.

On an unrelated note, Roscosmos is in serious trouble. Its name is OneWeb.

There’s a contract for 21 Soyuz, a possible contract for 5 Protons, and an option for further 8.

But then the FSB declares OneWeb a national security threat, since it ‘cannot exclude reconnaissance capability’.

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3798322

The truth is much simpler: OneWeb isn’t going to integrate the SORM traffic snoopers (likely to be supplemented with DPI in the nearest future), thus putting the traffic out of reach of Russia’s ‘Internet sovereignty’ measures. The frequency allocation authority is similarily dragging is heels.

Problem is, this obstruction is utterly inconsequential to OneWeb. My own anonymous sauces say the FSB has already considered blanket-jamming all OneWeb signals in Russian territory, but the pricetag does not look good.

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7 hours ago, sh1pman said:

At this rate, S7 Space will have its own reusable rocket Soyuz-7 sooner than Roscosmos launches Soyuz-5. And a reusable spacecraft before Federation.

Nah, they’d be good corporate citizens and shoot themselves in the foot - otherwise there’s no tellling what irregularities Rosaviatsiya would uncover.

Right now they’re pretending the Zenit assembly line in former Dnepropetrovsk has retained full functionality.

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1 hour ago, DDE said:

Right now they’re pretending the Zenit assembly line in former Dnepropetrovsk has retained full functionality.

They claim that the first new Zenit will be ready for assembly by January 2019. So it must be working...

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38 minutes ago, sh1pman said:

They claim that the first new Zenit will be ready for assembly by January 2019. So it must be working...

Yeeeeah, because all private companies always deliver on time :sticktongue:

Spoiler

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5 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

They say "for assembly". Assembly-disassembly, then once again.

1st Company on trench-digging duty.

2nd Company observes.

3rd Company on trench-filling duty!

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