JoeSchmuckatelli Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 20 hours ago, Jacke said: run a whole lot The Tom Cruise run is an NFT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 (edited) https://www.interfax.ru/russia/817961 Rogozin stated that the Tier 3 of Vostochny will have a cheap and lightweight design, instead of the classic scheme with underground bunkers able to survive a tactical nuke, cyclopic trenches, and so on. The Tier 3 is intended for Amur-SPG/LNG rocket. It should be able to support 15 launches/year, including the interflight servicing of reusable stage(s). Preliminary estimation of Amur-SPG/LNG launch is 22 megabucks. Edited January 24, 2022 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 5 hours ago, kerbiloid said: https://www.interfax.ru/russia/817961 Rogozin stated that the Tier 3 of Vostochny will have a cheap and lightweight design, instead of the classic scheme with underground bunkers able to survive a tactical nuke, cyclopic trenches, and so on. The Tier 3 is intended for Amur-SPG/LNG rocket. It should be able to support 15 launches/year, including the interflight servicing of reusable stage(s). Preliminary estimation of Amur-SPG/LNG launch is 22 megabucks. Meanwhile, Elon Musk, after "fragging" a few launchpads... With the Railway Launch, the real news is that Barguzin ICBM is still ostensibly alive and kicking despite repeated news of its cancellation... mostly because it makes little sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 8 minutes ago, DDE said: With the Railway Launch, the real news is that Barguzin ICBM is still ostensibly alive and kicking despite repeated news of its cancellation... mostly because it makes little sense. Space is new purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 https://www.interfax.ru/russia/818356 The head of the Russian ISS segment Vladimir Solovyov told that the US side tends to sink the ISS after its service, and asked the Russian side to develop a scenario of its deorbiting and sinking, by 2028..2030. P.S. Shouldn't we have a KSP challenge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 1 hour ago, kerbiloid said: https://www.interfax.ru/russia/818356 The head of the Russian ISS segment Vladimir Solovyov told that the US side tends to sink the ISS after its service, and asked the Russian side to develop a scenario of its deorbiting and sinking, by 2028..2030. P.S. Shouldn't we have a KSP challenge? Breaking: Russia developing a scenario to bomb Pacific Ocean from space with hypersonic object. Can it be stopped?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 4 hours ago, sh1pman said: Breaking: Russia developing a scenario to bomb Pacific Ocean from space with hypersonic object. Can it be stopped?! Odds on how long before some US Congressman quotes you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 4 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: Odds on how long before some US Congressman quotes you? Once the google cash will put this post on top for "hypersonic bombing". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 9 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: Odds on how long before some US Congressman quotes you? Could improve them with a Daily Mail article, or, or... Can the ISS deorbit be used to disrupt Nordstream 2 approvals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 (edited) As the Tselinides meteor shower is still in orbit, will they use a net to deorbit every part of the ISS? Edited January 26, 2022 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, DDE said: Can the ISS deorbit be used to disrupt... ... China illegally building artificial reefs in international waters? International Submerged Station! (by now we should have enough terms for Goigles to begin hitting the looney search patterns) Edited January 26, 2022 by JoeSchmuckatelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 38 minutes ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: China illegally building artificial reefs in international waters? Once they have built a mass driver on the Moon to throw the minerals, this will run much faster. They will be able to build a circular Sea Chinese Wall around the sea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 22 hours ago, kerbiloid said: They will be able to build a circular Sea Chinese Wall around the sea. And a rock bridge from mainland to Taiwan. For reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 3 hours ago, sh1pman said: And a rock bridge from mainland to Taiwan. For reasons. Xerxes the Great has entered the chat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 A whirl of sand from Moon to Earth constantly blown by a mass driver, entering the atmosphere, falling down and forming hills and islands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 What was the size/production capacity of the N1 assembly plant at Tyura-Tam? I am trying to figure out what the launch rate might have been if it had worked according to the original schedule. Approval was given to produce parts for 14 rockets. That began in February 1967. Vehicle 3L was actually completed in May 1968 and was supposed to launch shortly after, but problems were found with the first stage, so it wasn't launched until February 1969. Vehicle 5L was launched in July 1969. Events afterwards are irrelevant, because the design was modified after each failure and that took time. To compare with the US, which had a number of facilities spread out across the country, such as the Michoud Assembly Facility, on average about three Saturn Vs were delivered each year from the start of production. Because the Apollo flight schedule was "slow" after Apollo 13, some had to be stored at KSC. It took about three years to build a Saturn V. In contrast, it took one year to build the first N1. This isn't surprising considering the N1 never flew successfully. But this hypothetical scenario I am creating takes place in a world where the Soviet response to Apollo started in 1961 instead of 1964 and has full funding (also, Korolev doesn't die). So for quality purposes, it might be assumed that production time is longer, but I don't know whether the manufacture of the N1 was short due to sloppy work caused by a rushed schedule, or if the N1 failed because of sloppy work alone, and not necessarily a rushed development schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 The N1 disasters were caused by its general architecture and lack of testing of the whole assembly on ground. 30 engines with 30 sets of pumps, pipes, valves. 30 * N sources of pulsing combustion in chambers, pusling fuel components flow in pipes, etc. Hundreds of possible resonance sources, and the engine which previously never had been tested. In Soyuz they use 20 major combustion chambers, but grouped by 4 with 1 pump for every for (so 5 in total), and separated in five boosters, each of them tested. So, the modular design is a way to debug the rocket, while they didn't have money to test a pack of 30 engines for N1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Any word on what just launched out of Plesetsk? The usual sources are awfully quiet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 7 minutes ago, DDE said: Any word on what just launched out of Plesetsk? The usual sources are awfully quiet. https://www.interfax.ru/russia/820419 A radproof milsat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 7 hours ago, kerbiloid said: https://www.interfax.ru/russia/820419 A radproof milsat. Since I don't see the word "experimental", this would normally imply the rad-hardening is just an extra feature, rather than the sat being a technology demonstrator. In other news, the sat probably has solar panels, and maybe even goes into space. (Sorry, was away playing Outside™ the whole day) ...so, having gotten off my bum and gotten to NASASpaceflight, I'm no longer as dismissive of that description. There was ambiguity as to whether this is Neutron, a long-delayed Kondor derivative that, indeed, appears to have the sole purpose of testing rad-hardening systems, or a Lotos signals snooper. https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=45081.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 (edited) Roscosmos has read the last posts about the robots and has shown the EVA robot. https://www-rbc-ru.translate.goog/technology_and_media/07/02/2022/620129049a79470f053ad061?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru Now its name is Teledroid. Will be mostly an avatar, but some operations can perform on its own. Edited February 7, 2022 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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