Russian Launch Vehicles and their Spacecraft: Thoughts & News

Big_Gazza wrote:

flamming_python wrote:How about you do some work you fking baboon, instead of devoting all your time to PR and press releases?

I assume you're spruiking your wares to win the job as PDs new paduan?

MOSCOW, April 14 - RIA Novosti. The reusable cruise stage of the Krylo-SV light-class launch vehicle being developed in Russia will be able to land both on wheels and on skis, depending on the type of landing strips. This was stated by the head of the experimental design bureau named after Bartini TsNIIMash Boris Satovsky in a video posted on the YouTube channel of the Faculty of Aerophysics and Space Research at MIPT.

"In an extreme case, we assume the possibility of landing even on an unpaved airfield, so the chassis will have interchangeable equipment: if landing on a concrete strip and a cool airfield, then these will be wheels, and if this is a landing on the ground, then it will be skis," Satovsky said ...

Work on the Krylo-SV rocket project began several years ago, and in February 2020, the Scientific and Technical Council of the Advanced Research Fund decided to start developing a flight demonstrator.

Krylo-SV is a reusable cruise stage of a light class missile. It will measure six meters long and 0.8 meters in diameter. The rocket demonstrator is planned to be one-third the size of the original. Krylo-SV will travel at hypersonic speeds - up to six Mach numbers. A new rocket engine called "Whirlwind" is being developed especially for the rocket.

It is planned that after the separation of the second stage, which will continue its flight, the first reusable stage will return to the cosmodrome on wings and using an aircraft engine.

Big_Gazza wrote:The rocket engine RD0124MS with a thrust in the void of 60 tons runs on the fuel components "liquid oxygen + naphthyl" and is intended for use in the second stage of the "Soyuz-5" launch vehicle. The engine consists of two blocks located on a common frame. Each of the blocks includes two chambers. The engine provides rocking of the chambers in two planes, as well as work when one of the units is turned off, including at a reduced thrust mode.

http://wikiredia.ru/wiki/Нафтил

Google translate:
Kerosene is used in rocketry as an environmentally friendly hydrocarbon fuel and, at the same time, as a working fluid for hydraulic machines . The use of kerosene in rocket engines was proposed by Tsiolkovsky in 1914 . Together with liquid oxygen, it is used at the lower stages of many launch vehicles : Soviet / Russian - Soyuz , Molniya , Zenit , Energia , Angara (T-1 aviation kerosene); American - series " Delta " and " Atlas-5 " (under the brand name " RG-1 " in English " RP-1"). To increase the density, and thus the efficiency of the rocket system, the propellant is often supercooled. In the USSR, in a number of cases, a synthetic substitute for kerosene, synthine , was used , which made it possible to increase the efficiency of an engine developed for kerosene without significant changes in the design.

https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/Нафтил

Google translate:
cosm. rocket fuel obtained from oil refined products; a mixture of naphthenes 85–88%, isoparaffins 12–10% and monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 2.5–3% ◆  Naphthyl is a low-toxic hydrocarbon fuel that differs from the T-1 fuel used in the Soyuz type launch vehicle by a relatively lower content of aromatic compounds. Sergey Mamontov, "" Union "Vostochny cosmodrome will translate into a new fuel Nafta" // "RIA Novosti", 12 September 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP-1#RP-1-like_fuels

Soviet formulations are discussed above. In addition, the Soviets briefly used syntin (Russian: синтин), a higher-energy formulation, used in upper stages. Syntin is 1-methyl-1,2-dicyclopropyl cyclopropane (C10H16). Russia is also working to switch the Soyuz-2 from RP-1 to "naftil"[7] or "naphthyl".[8][9]

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http://russia-now.com/en/114967/will-russias-1st-carrier-rocket-firing-naphthyl-blast-off/

The use of naphthyl in Soyuz-2 engines will allow bringing a bigger payload into all types of orbit as compared to the oxygen-kerosene pair. At the same time, the use of naphthyl will have the same impact on the environment as kerosene – both types of fuel are referred to the 4th class of hazard.

MOSCOW, May 6 - RIA Novosti. " Roskosmos " postponed to the 2022 preliminary design carrier rocket "Soyuz-6" with the engine RD-180 , which comes in the USA , is evident from the state-owned corporation, located on the site of public procurement .
In December, it became known from state purchases that Roscosmos plans to spend 166.2 million rubles on the creation of a draft design for Soyuz-6 in the period from January to November 2021.
According to public procurement materials, now the development of the project is scheduled for the period from January to November 2022.
In September 2019, Dmitry Rogozin , the general director of Roscosmos, announced that a new rocket, Soyuz-6, would be created in Russia . It will be able to launch 9 tons of cargo into low-earth orbit, 5.5 tons into a sun-synchronous orbit, and 2.3 tons into a geo-transfer orbit. The start of flight tests of the Soyuz-6 at the Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled for 2025; the rocket will also fly from the Vostochny cosmodrome.
The first stage of Soyuz-6 will use the RD-180MV engine, a modification of the Russian RD-180 engine used in the first stage of the American Atlas-5 rocket. In total, according to NPO Energomash , 116 engines have been sent to the United States since 1999, of which 92 have already been used.

owais.usmani wrote:https://ria.ru/20210506/raketa-1731250762.html

MOSCOW, May 6 - RIA Novosti. " Roskosmos " postponed to the 2022 preliminary design carrier rocket "Soyuz-6" with the engine RD-180 , which comes in the USA , is evident from the state-owned corporation, located on the site of public procurement .
In December, it became known from state purchases that Roscosmos plans to spend 166.2 million rubles on the creation of a draft design for Soyuz-6 in the period from January to November 2021.
According to public procurement materials, now the development of the project is scheduled for the period from January to November 2022.
In September 2019, Dmitry Rogozin , the general director of Roscosmos, announced that a new rocket, Soyuz-6, would be created in Russia . It will be able to launch 9 tons of cargo into low-earth orbit, 5.5 tons into a sun-synchronous orbit, and 2.3 tons into a geo-transfer orbit. The start of flight tests of the Soyuz-6 at the Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled for 2025; the rocket will also fly from the Vostochny cosmodrome.
The first stage of Soyuz-6 will use the RD-180MV engine, a modification of the Russian RD-180 engine used in the first stage of the American Atlas-5 rocket. In total, according to NPO Energomash , 116 engines have been sent to the United States since 1999, of which 92 have already been used.