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2 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

Now, if I ask my Spanish teacher in spanish if I can watch it, will he let me?

Only if you explain the MS-10 abort, also in Spanish?

And not reversed sped-up Spanish...

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1 hour ago, DDE said:

Only if you explain the MS-10 abort, also in Spanish?

And not reversed sped-up Spanish...

I'm only in Spanish III, I don't know that many space words, only espacio (space) and coheta (rocket) because I looked them up. The closest thing I could come to the original question was "Puedo mirar el cohete despegar al espacio en quince minutos?" which roughly translates to "Can I watch the rocket take off to space in 15 minutes?"

Trying to talk about the abort in Spanish would be a nightmare...

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They say that Energy Corp. has deisgned a 3.5 t capable cargo ship to deliver supplies to ISS.
LV = Soyuz 2.1. 

https://translate.google.com.tr/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&u=https://www.interfax.ru/russia/638512&edit-text=

And that the Russian cosmonauts are going to land on the Moon by early 2030s, starting the lunar base construction in late 2020s.

https://translate.google.com.tr/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&u=https://www.interfax.ru/russia/638519&edit-text=

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5 hours ago, sh1pman said:

Also, turns out, "Soyuz-5" and "Federation" are temporary names and will be changed in the future.

Again? Wasn’t there a whole competition over “Federatsya”?

Well, at least they’re keeping with Soviet traditions.

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Irtysh.

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/index.html

 

Unrelated but super interesting : Soyuz control software described by one of the developers (gosha_space) :

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=46594.0

The control system of Soyuz-TM is written in Fortran and Algol. Soyuz-TMA (and TMA-M) in Assembler (45,000 lines) and Pascal (37,000 lines). Real-time operating systems are used only in simulators in the Cosmonauts Training Center (Linux-based QNX). The station for testing the Union (there is a program on the RSK1 computer) also uses a real-time OS based on Linux.

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Roscosmos wants to include Marathon into the Sphera megaconstellation project. They think that voice comms are already taken, and the regular Internet will be taken by the time they’ll be rolling out, so they think a dedicated constellation for the Internet of Things is their niche.

https://ria.ru/science/20181125/1533449358.html

Meanwhile, it seems that Sphera is becoming a blanket term for Russia’s entire non-military and dual-use orbital group, including GLONASS.

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15 hours ago, Teilnehmer said:

:wacko:

Moon hoaxers are now a slim majority in Russia, so it’s a viable selling point.

4 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

In short, second one had a whole chain of power and computer issues that eventually led to a formal decommissioning of the vehicle. Third one is currently non-operational due to failure of the high-bandwidth transmitter.

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2 hours ago, sh1pman said:

Vocal minority, I'd say.

Not what the polls show, and utterly unsurprising given that anti-Americanism found in the tabloids and in the kitchens far exceeds that found on federal TV.

We’re talking a catastrophic shortage of tinfoil. Among the sadomasochistics that trawl the worst bowels of the Internet, Russian conspiracy theories are regarded as the apex of kookiness, buttressed by appeals to classified Soviet research.

And that’s before we discuss the late 1980s-1990s, when all sorts of junk got government endorsement.

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