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On 11/22/2022 at 5:56 AM, kerbiloid said:

Oryol can't be older than something today because it's not manufactured yet.

While CST and Orion arer already obsolete, being built a decade ago.

This makes no sense, but you know that already so there's no point arguing

 

Also, today's the 50th anniversary of the last N1 flight!

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1 hour ago, kerbiloid said:

Well, as we still don't have any Starship flight, let it be N1. 

N1 at least has tried.

P.S.
Technically, this thread title doesn't limit the launches with ballistic ones, of course...

Starship has flown higher than N1 ever did. 

Well, maybe parts of the N1 went higher.

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47 minutes ago, Codraroll said:

Starship has flown higher than N1 ever did. 

Starship has hopped with six (or three?) engines of 30 required.

It hasn't even proven that it can ignite them at once and not explode.

The altitude means nothing. R-5 was flying higher than Starship.

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Interview with Vladimir Degtyar', CEO and Chief Designer of KB Makeyev (for the last 25 years). Clearly a puff piece with a very recognizable pace of a Soviet article meant for his fellow bigwigs.

https://rg.ru/2022/11/23/silnee-argumenta-ne-byvaet.html

Three key takeaways are, close work between Makeuev and munition designers at VNIIEF, including on designs that afford up-armijg of existing SLBMs, a continuing push for the next-gen SLBM to be liquid-fuelled (thus forcing MIT out of Makeyev's fiefdom), and Sarmat-based asteroid defense using a Lagrange-point-based soace surveillance system (inspired by the Chelyabinsk meteor, in the very literal sense of it being visible from Miass). The asteroid defense effort includes conceptual studies for a kill vehicle capable of intercepting "objects" 10-100 m in diameter at 1-2 mln km.

There are, of course, no other known use for such a capability.

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56 minutes ago, DDE said:

and Sarmat-based asteroid defense using a Lagrange-point-based soace surveillance system

Very good. Much better than hitting dydymuses with astronomic tools.

Any words about Orion drive for that?

58 minutes ago, DDE said:

The asteroid defense effort includes conceptual studies for a kill vehicle capable of intercepting "objects" 10-100 m in diameter at 1-2 mln km.

Now we know the Orion (SLS) working orbit. That's where they are going to place the orbital fortress supplied with Orionss (SLS).

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1 hour ago, kerbiloid said:

A cooling system can't have no backup or redundancy, and they aren't going to be flying for three days. They are already docked, and need a short deorbit burn. After that they don't need the damaged thing.

The most obvious redundancy is to have multiple radiator panels in parallel and the option to disconnect them if you get a leak. 
Now if this cools the service module and it looses all cooling things can get bad so bad IIS might have to drop it, if it has some redundancy they are likely good. 
Its also some chance they don't want to risk crew on it, we has to wait for diagnostic. 

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