Russian Space Program: News & Discussion #1

"One of the works and one use of combat robots, it is not only the battlefield, it is, above all, space", - said Dmitry Rogozin


KLIMOVSK /Moscow region/, February 13. /TASS/. Work has begun on the avatar creation (remotely controlled robot), which in future can become one of the crew members of the Russian national space station. This was announced on Saturday by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.


"One of the works and one use of combat robots, it is not only the battlefield is first of all space, - said Deputy Prime Minister. Today is set to work on creating avatar, which will be one of the crew members of the future Russian national orbital station".
Rogozin said that such a development will allow without a special space suit to go into space and under the control of the operator-cosmonaut protected, to make particularly complex operations on Board the spacecraft. "In General, we believe that humanoid robots with computer vision and artificial intelligence perspective, this is no fairy tale, this is what we actually are moving systematically in order to create not only weapons capable of defending Russia, but also civilian technologies that will enable us to become a great country not only by physical power but also in its unique intelligence," - said Rogozin.
He noted that one of the driving started technical progress is laziness and the other is envy. "From sloth had created the wheel because I was too lazy to walk from laziness had created machines, all kinds of elevators, etc., ironically added Rogozin. But we are tired of be jealous of to leading American laboratories, based at the University centers, which makes robotics unique".



He stressed that if the Russian defense industry today makes the best combat aircraft in the world, we can make robot for civilian use. The Foundation for advanced studies has demonstrated two prototypes. One of them is technological model of the end portion anthropomorphic platform, designed for fine manipulation in gauge, Supervisory and Autonomous control modes. Remote control of the platform is performed from a control suit that reads the fine motor skills of the neck, shoulders, wrist and fingers. This creates the effect of presence of the operator at the place of action. Saw a mock-up showed the skills of driving. Another development is the anthropomorphic platform, designed to handle systems of dynamic equilibrium, dynamic and challenging step of coordinating manipulators. The platform is simultaneously operated and automated programs. This platform drops restores its upright position without operator intervention. Its objective function is associated with subtle manipulation tool with various objects and vehicles. Shows the sample with the operator simulated the operation of the welder

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MOSCOW, 2 Mar — RIA Novosti. Nuclear power installation, created in the Russian Federation jointly by Rosatom and the Russian Federal space Agency, will allow us to reach Mars within an unprecedented short period of time — about one and a half months, said the General Director of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko.
"Today's installation space allow us to reach Mars within a year and a half without possibility to return back and without the possibility of maneuvering once they are accelerated further and are on the path," — said Kiriyenko on Wednesday, speaking in the Federation Council.
"The installation of a nuclear engine will allow us to reach Mars within a month and a half and come back, because it retains the ability to maneuver," — said the head of Rosatom.

Rmf wrote:this is really a sad day   ,this makes cinderella look like sad story   , now chief of rosatom is on the act- talking b.s. rubbish to pump up disenfranchised public about plummeting Russian space program. his talking about megawat class reactor in space ahahaha ,this thing will never be built and any with some knowledge knows that. even usa nasa uses this b.s. to calm public...
thing is nuclear reactor in submarine is cooled by WHOLE OCEAN , this thing will need radiators size of siberia to cool off, the weight of reactor and radiators and cost and fuel to propell all that - its vapourware!
100% b.s.
second - you should go on 6 month free return trajectory. that is you can abort and go past mars out into ateroid belt then return into inner solar system and earth will be there in 2 years. with 1,5 speeds were talking going to ethernity if you cant brake... you should use proppelant wisely and increase payload then to go faster then 6 months and also because delta -V gets much higher and higher.
for uneducated here
least energy is 8,5 month -3,8km/s trans mars injection from LEO.
6 month free return trajectory  is 4,15km/s..
this 45 days trajectory is 16 km/s delta/v and you need to slow down so its much worse...
its obvious some space directors are counting on dumb public to swallow this crap.  but now chief of rosatom is on the act omg its getting worse.

Rmf wrote:............... even usa nasa uses this b.s. to calm public...........................

Rmf wrote:Actally fanboyism aside chemical hydrogen/oxygen rocket-450s ISP , or nuclear termal rocket- 900s ISP will be the way people get to mars , ... everything else is b.s. to calm public they are doing something about it, all while they are doing zero!
even nasa is doing that and russians just copy that propaganda piece.
from the space initiative in early 90s there were suggestions for minimalistic mars mission i think you should look it up , the idea was to make in situ return fuel on mars or carry only hydrogen which is few % total return mass.
but please have fun you will be long dead while they still talk how they are ""workin on" to get to mars...

Rmf wrote:
, this thing will need radiators size of siberia to cool off, the weight of reactor and radiators and cost and fuel to propell all that - its vapourware!
100% b.s.

A radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG, RITEG) is an electrical generator that uses an array of thermocouples to convert the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity by the Seebeck effect. This generator has no moving parts.

RTGs have been used as power sources in satellites, space probes, and unmanned remote facilities such as a series of lighthouses built by the former Soviet Union inside the Arctic Circle.

"Results presented to NASA and academia in January 2011 have confirmed that the design point for optimal efficiency on the VX-200 is 50 km/s exhaust velocity, or an Isp of 5000 s. Based on these data, thruster efficiency of 72% has been achieved by Ad Astra,[21] yielding an overall system efficiency (DC electricity to thruster power) of 60% (since the DC to RF power conversion efficiency exceeds 95%) with argon as the propellant.

this 45 days trajectory is 16 km/s delta/v and you need to slow down so its much worse...
its obvious some space directors are counting on dumb public to swallow this crap.  but now chief of rosatom is on the act omg its getting worse.

Vann7 wrote:

I always had the idea for a long time of , Russia deploying a big mirror in space orbit and use it
to manipulate the weather in Russia. To allow Russia experience a much better weather ,by
radiating the sun light on its territory on winters. if done big enough and efficient enough ,
with enough research and funding and done right , in the right time.. then it should be very possible for a nation like Russia to totally change its cold weather and turn Russia into a more
warmer nation ,with smaller winters.  SOmething that can really benefit the Russian agriculture..
but also Russia tourism ,could create many perfect days in Russia with clear day or nights.

The posibilities are endless the mirror could be used for example to weaken hurricanes or to
fix bad weather.