Russian Space Program: News & Discussion #1

flamming_python wrote:

kvs wrote:

George1 wrote:Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft makes manoeuvre to avoid collision with space junk

A fragment of the spent third stage of a Japanese carrier rocket, launched in 1989, happened to be on the spacecraft’s flight path, Russia’s space agency said

MOSCOW, September 3. /TASS/. Russia’s Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft that is on a journey to the International Space Station (ISS) has made a manoeuvre to avoid a collision with a fragment of a Japanese carrier rocket, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos told TASS on Thursday.

"A fragment of the spent third stage of a Japanese carrier rocket, launched in 1989, happened to be on the spacecraft’s flight path. Ballisticians of the Russian mission control and their American colleagues worked jointly to prevent a collision," Roscosmos said.

Funny how Japan's government was warning its people to stay indoors when Mir was being deorbited.   As if there was any chance of any
debris landing on Japan.   But the clowns couldn't miss the chance to take a piss on Russia.   But here we have a real hazard left behind
by mighty, pure and superior Japan.

How do you know there wasn't?

I don't recall Japan claiming itself to be pure and superior. They are quite humble as far as nations go.

flamming_python wrote:

......I don't recall Japan claiming itself to be pure and superior. They are quite humble as far as nations go.

magnumcromagnon wrote:

flamming_python wrote:

kvs wrote:

George1 wrote:Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft makes manoeuvre to avoid collision with space junk

A fragment of the spent third stage of a Japanese carrier rocket, launched in 1989, happened to be on the spacecraft’s flight path, Russia’s space agency said

MOSCOW, September 3. /TASS/. Russia’s Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft that is on a journey to the International Space Station (ISS) has made a manoeuvre to avoid a collision with a fragment of a Japanese carrier rocket, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos told TASS on Thursday.

"A fragment of the spent third stage of a Japanese carrier rocket, launched in 1989, happened to be on the spacecraft’s flight path. Ballisticians of the Russian mission control and their American colleagues worked jointly to prevent a collision," Roscosmos said.

Funny how Japan's government was warning its people to stay indoors when Mir was being deorbited.   As if there was any chance of any
debris landing on Japan.   But the clowns couldn't miss the chance to take a piss on Russia.   But here we have a real hazard left behind
by mighty, pure and superior Japan.

How do you know there wasn't?

I don't recall Japan claiming itself to be pure and superior. They are quite humble as far as nations go.

Meanwhile the Japanese still refuse to recognize the Rape of Nanking, or any of the atrocities committed by their fascists...in fact Japanese culture has brainwashed the average Japanese citizen to generally believe the Imperial Japanese fascists of the WW2 era were "victims", and all the rape, murder, genocide were "myths" perpetuated by people who wanted to "persecute" Imperial Japan. Why do you think the Japanese still refuse to accept that they lost the Kurille Island chain? Why does Japan have territorial disputes with Russia, China, Taiwan, and South Korea? Because they believe all those islands belonged to Imperial Japan...the "victims"   of WW2.

Germans, and Italians have been stereotyped as being "arrogant", however at least they recognize their fascists as evil and genocidal, meanwhile Prime Minister Shinzo Abe still attends Shinto Shrines dedicated to WW2 era Japanese fascists to pay his respects to "fallen heroes" and "victims"...now that's arrogance!

VIENNA, September 14 - RIA Novosti. The state corporation "Rosatom" in 2018 will present a prototype nuclear reactor for energodvigatelnoy installation, which will be necessary for the implementation of projects for space exploration, told reporters, Deputy General Director of Rosatom - the director of the Bloc Vyacheslav Pershukov innovation management.

In Russia in 2010 performed no analogues in the world, the project of creation of transport-energy module based on a nuclear power installation megawatt class. Technical solutions inherent in the concept of the module, will allow to solve a wide range of space applications, including the program of lunar exploration and research missions to distant planets, the creation of automated databases for them. The project is implemented jointly by enterprises of Rosatom and the Russian Space Agency.

Chief Designer of the reactor installation and the coordinator of the work in favor of Rosatom JSC "Order of Lenin Research and Development Institute of Power Dollezhal name" (NIKIET). According to the annual report for 2014 NIKIET, prototyping reactor plant is scheduled to begin in 2016.

"In 2018, according to the schedule, we must finally give a prototype nuclear reactor (for energodvigatelnoy installation) megawatt-class for space projects. And we do this, the obligations we will meet," - said Pershukov on the sidelines of the 59th General Conference of the IAEA

sepheronx wrote:In Voronezh ion engine designed for deep space

sdelanounas wrote:Roscosmos: spacecraft Turksat-4B launched into the target orbit

October 17, 2015, at 08:52 MSK (Moscow Standard Time) telecommunications satellites Turksat-4B («Turksat-4B") cleanly separated from the upper stage "Breeze-M" at the target orbit and has been adopted by the management of the customer launch.
Start "Proton-M" with the upper stage "Breeze-M" spacecraft and Turksat-4B was carried out by specialists of rocket-space industry of Russia with the launch pad 200 cosmodrome "Baikonur" at 23:40 MSK October 16, 2015.
The launch was the fifth since the beginning of 2015 the successful launch of the space using a carrier rocket "Proton-M". Previous launch rocket "Proton-M" took place on September 14 with a Russian communications satellite "Express-AM8."
Turksat-4B is the second telecommunications spacecraft created by Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO, Japan) for the Turkish satellite operator Turksat Satellite Communication, Cable TV and Operation AS. The new spacecraft will provide broadcasting and broadband services in Turkey, Europe, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

The basis of the proposal - a promising project of the upgraded satellite communications system Gonets, prepared by a minority shareholder of the company Dauria Aerospace stated to Izvestia an informed source in the Russian Space Agency. Today there are at least 48 satellites in low orbits, although the appearance of groups may be modified, depending on the wishes of the Indian partners or representatives of other BRICS countries, with which the project is also planned to discuss. Also, we will focus on the possibility of co-creation and operation of telecommunication satellites in geostationary orbit to provide fixed communications in remote areas with deficient communication systems.

According to the source in the Russian Space Agency, the updated Gonets can be compared with satellite systems such as Iridium and OneWeb: the proposal is to achieve global coverage through the use of communication links between satellites (like Iridium) while providing high-speed internet access (up to 3 Mbps) to anywhere in the world.

Kyo wrote:Croc tears.

max steel wrote:US crying foul as usual but interesting stuff.

Does Russia Have War Bots in Space?

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“You can probably equip them with lasers, maybe put some explosives on them,” Anatoly Zak, a space historian and journalist, told Quartz. “If [one] comes very close to some military satellite, it probably can do some harm.”

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max steel wrote:

Kyo wrote:Croc tears.

But just read the articles i hyper-linked.Kind of surprised to see Russia making such superior space stuff and giving shivers down murika's spine let alone China.

Kyo wrote:Croc tears.