kerbiloid Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 https://www.interfax.ru/world/754564 They've patched the first crack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 Rogozin thanks NASA for the policy of dumping. Quote "The policy of dumping on the launch services market by the United States and financial doping on the part of American "space privateers", like any kick, did a good deed - the Russian rocket and space industry began a struggle to cut costs and optimize the price of Roscosmos launch services, - he wrote on the Telegram channel. In the opinion of the head of Roscosmos, we should thank NASA for this. So he commented on reports that NASA has raised the cost of commercial cargo delivery to the ISS by almost seven times. “Well, that’s actually all that needed to be proved. Especially noteworthy is this phrase“ the past pricing policy was aimed at stimulating the market. ”When the market was “stimulated”, that is, cleaned out of all non-American competitors, then prices can be raised to almost natural level (while the state subsidy is still preserved) ", - concluded Rogozin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 22 hours ago, sh1pman said: Rogozin thanks NASA for the policy of dumping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 https://www.interfax.ru/world/755099 The attempt to patch the second scratch was not successful, because it's in a tricky place. All paste stays on the surface of the patch. They will retry later, with a patch with a suction cup. *** https://www.interfax.ru/russia/755127 Russia and China have signed the memorandum about the joint development of international scientific lunar station. (The negotiations are lasting since 2019, and in January Russia quit/was-quit from Artemis).) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 35 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: https://www.interfax.ru/russia/755127 Russia and China have signed the memorandum about the joint development of international scientific lunar station. (The negotiations are lasting since 2019, and in January Russia quit/was-quit from Artemis).) That's about three weeks from government decree authorizing the signature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Quote ...He noted that the project includes the deployment of a space monitoring system on the Moon for studying deep space with the prospect of international cooperation in the field of asteroid-cometary safety. Putin during his next press conference: "We need to build a giant, super powerful railgun on the Moon. To defend against the asteroids, of course!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOXBLOX Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 51 minutes ago, sh1pman said: Putin during his next press conference: "We need to build a giant, super powerful railgun on the Moon. To defend against the asteroids, of course!" Americans: "That's no moon!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Lunar aborigines: (finishing reading the e-library lost by Beresheet , currently know the humans much better than in 1960s, starting development of their own plans) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 1 hour ago, sh1pman said: Putin during his next press conference: "We need to build a giant, super powerful railgun on the Moon. To defend against the asteroids, of course!" "I tried to warn you" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumpus Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 13 minutes ago, DDE said: "I tried to warn you" Warn? I'm pretty sure that he would have loved to have had an independent lunar colony. Besides, the existence of the United States has largely been beneficial to England. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 4 minutes ago, wumpus said: Warn? I'm pretty sure that he would have loved to have had an independent lunar colony. Besides, the existence of the United States has largely been beneficial to England. What does Robert Heinlein have to do with England (or am I missing something)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumpus Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 15 minutes ago, tater said: What does Robert Heinlein have to do with England (or am I missing something)? Nothing. The analogy was with the Lunar colony splitting from the US, compared to the US splitting from England. Note that the American colonies were largely penal colonies. The UK opened up Botany Bay roughly the same time they acknowledged the US's existence (roughly within the length of the time it took to get to Australia in the 18th century). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 (edited) Spoiler The first photo from Artemis project in the Shackleton crater tourist base. P.S, Is the map of the presumed lunar lantanoids and platinoids available in the net? P.P.S. (Just asking.) Edited March 9, 2021 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 1 hour ago, wumpus said: Nothing. The analogy was with the Lunar colony splitting from the US, compared to the US splitting from England. Note that the American colonies were largely penal colonies. The UK opened up Botany Bay roughly the same time they acknowledged the US's existence (roughly within the length of the time it took to get to Australia in the 18th century). Spoiler This is way OT, but what would become the US was not "largely penal colonies." There were some 10s of thousands sent to a few colonies over the time span of 150 years. The population of the US in 1776 was ~2.5 million people, and that was a few generations after colonization started, so the total number of colonists who lived was some multiple of that. "Largely" would imply millions of convicts (a majority at least), not the noise level it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 5 hours ago, sh1pman said: Putin during his next press conference: "We need to build a giant, super powerful railgun on the Moon. To defend against the asteroids, of course!" And now in a less ironic response, this is basically what Ashurbeyli seems to have had in mind for Asgardia. "Asteroid defense platforms". Spoiler That's what you get for jumping onto a hype train run by the ousted CEO of Russia's foremost SAM developer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, DDE said: "Asteroid defense platforms". Counter-Asteroid defense platform, don't confuse! The laser-propelled interstellar starsail also requires its piece of pie. Happily, the long-term orbital nuketug can study Jupiter on its own, and even help with the international scientific lunar station (do not confuse with Artemis which is for the militarization of the Moon). Edited March 10, 2021 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 https://www.interfax.ru/russia/755475 Rogozin explained that NASA has purchased a seat in the future Soyuz because US crewed vessels are probably not reliable. "Their trampoline probably works so-so. The flights to ISS are not stable., so they have an imperative need in backup option, to send their guy on our ship, to not leave the station (their segment) without any supervision." He added that Roscosmos agreed with their request to prevent irreversible troubles on the station in whole. Originally MS-18 was planned as full-Russian, but that week NASA invited to exchange with seats and send one US astronaut on Soyuz, while one RU one on a US ship in 2023. Rogozin said, that "a seat exchange doesn't matter here, just our partners signed a contract with Roscosmos, and the payment will be used on future cosmonautic development". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 2 hours ago, kerbiloid said: "Their trampoline probably works so-so. Well, at least he is the most hilarious Director that Roscosmos has ever had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 I hope, this will not be a problem for the space movie schedule, as top-20 of the actresses is already listed (from 3 000 claims). https://www.interfax.ru/russia/755118 In March 2021 they will pass the medical commission. The movie working title is "Challenge", director - Klim Shipenko (Salyut-7, etc.) *** Please, Roscosmos, do it asap! Just not Tom Cruise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 https://www.interfax.ru/russia/755731 No insurance company wanted to insure the future Proton launch with Nauka / Science module for ISS for 17.7 bln RUR (~240 mln USD). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 3 hours ago, kerbiloid said: https://www.interfax.ru/russia/755731 No insurance company wanted to insure the future Proton launch with Nauka / Science module for ISS for 17.7 bln RUR (~240 mln USD). Sounds like that trampoline has some busted springs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 15 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Sounds like that trampoline has some busted springs... I think I know who might end up stepping on that rake. https://pesllxi2efslnagci7isbbdh3y-adwhj77lcyoafdy-www-asn-news-ru.translate.goog/news/75273 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/604bfb6e9a79475b3364bc22 Soyuz 2.1a revamped. Now the "standard" gray-orange color of Soyuz rockets will be replaced with the white-blue one. White is new gray, blue is new orange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanRising Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 12 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/604bfb6e9a79475b3364bc22 Soyuz 2.1a revamped. Now the "standard" gray-orange color of Soyuz rockets will be replaced with the white-blue one. White is new gray, blue is new orange. I like the way that sounds, as pointless a change as it might be. Would be neat to see some pictures, as my imagination might be making that look better than it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandmann.bk Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 1 hour ago, kerbiloid said: Soyuz 2.1a revamped. 1 hour ago, RyanRising said: Would be neat to see some pictures Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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