Russian Space Program: News & Discussion #4

Typical western propaganda BS. Now every western media outlet is talking about the "unsafe russian module" and not the successful docking.

If that would not have been some sort of conspiracy theory, I would say that this entire mission is kind of Russian trolling
Each stage was "not according to the plan", giving the armchair cosmonauts all the shitload to masturbate, but ended up "things brought back to operational status".
All the shitstorm potency is gone, how sad
Ended up with "accidental" ignition of correction engine, with "remains of gas", changing the location of ISS.
But not serious enough that could not be solved in less than an hour.
And what do we have then?
Muricans must cancel its scheduled test flight, not knowing when they will find another window of opportunity
Sometimes the best things cames by surprise

Big_Gazza wrote:

Daniel_Admassu wrote:What could possibly be more disastrous for the station than an asymmetrical thrust that turns it upside down or, God-forbid, snaps it at one of the nodes?  

Whoa..  take a deep breath  

Firstly, there is no up and down in space.  Secondly how is an unscheduled firing of attitude control jets going to damage the station? The angular rate of change was apparently about one minute of arc per minute, and was undetectable by the crew.

Its not a great result, as its another layer on the shitcake that has detracted from the successful docking, but FFS lets not carry on like its the Challenger disaster.  Leave that melodrama to US corporate media hacks and pro-establishment scribblers.

Indeed. If this was a problem with a US or EU (LOL) project it would be called minor glitches. For Russia it is the end of the world.

GTFO.

Also, we have claims being passed off as fact for several days now. How do we know that there was an actual post-docking problem and
it was not planned? Docking involves changing the momentum of the ISS to some extent regardless of fine adjustment thrusting. You
can see this in the vibration of the solar panels on the Nauka upon contact with the ISS. Looks to me like a post-docking adjustment to
the ISS orbital velocity is being smeared as a Russian fail. Yeah, I know that the Nauka is not supposed to be used for ISS orbital corrections.

Some Twatter post even by any of the US astronauts on the ISS is not worth shit. They are not even aware of all the technicalities in the
docking procedure. It is highly likely that these astronauts have instructions from their bosses to stir shit up for Russia.

A cacophony of boy who cried wolf claims does not become the truth because of volume of such claims.

By the standards of SpaceX (Musk thinks it is a success when one of his "rockets" explodes on the ground) it was the most successful space mission ever.

Aristide wrote:Whats going on with russian space program? The russian Nauka module first failed to fire its main engine and to bring it to Orbit. This was fixed.

Later when attached to ISS the desaster happened. Nauka ignited its engines and pushed the ISS out of orbit. The entire station tilted by 45°. The system automaticly fired other engines to
correct the tilt, which made the station almost break apart.

Ground control lost contact for over an hour. Station is stable now. NASA and ESA look for debris.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/science/russia-module-space-station.html

Boucle-la, mon pote, mieux vaut. (=better STFU, mate). Quel canard, le NYT! (= the NYT is utter yellow press!).

The latest claims before the docking "disaster" was that Nauka had no fuel left to even dock. But somehow it had all this extra fuel to
send the ISS spinning off into space...

Roscosmos will decide on the appearance of the new Russian orbital station, 31.07.2021.

Roskosmos on Saturday will decide on the appearance of the new Russian space station.

MOSCOW, July 31 - RIA Novosti. The scientific and technical council of Roskosmos at a meeting on Saturday will determine the prospects for creating a new Russian orbital station, after which documents should be drawn up to submit the project to the government, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin said earlier.

According to him, the meeting of the council will begin at 11.00 Moscow time. The meeting will decide the question of the appearance of the new Russian orbital station: either retrofitting with new modules of the Russian segment of the ISS with its subsequent separation, or the creation of a fundamentally new high-latitude station. The decision is planned to be submitted for approval and approval to the government, said the head of the state corporation.

Russia plans to withdraw from the International Space Station project after 2025 and build its national orbital station. Rogozin said that the idea was supported by the President of the Russian Federation.

The first option for creating the station provides for the retrofitting of the Russian segment of the ISS with nodal and scientific-energy modules, and after the completion of the ISS operation - their compartment together with the recently docked multifunctional laboratory module "Nauka". These three modules should form the core of the new station, which can be further expanded by adding other compartments.

The second option was proposed many years ago, but it has been talked about again since last year. We are talking about the creation of a station in high-latitude orbit. When the orbit is inclined 97 degrees to the equator, the solar panels of the station will always be illuminated. This orbit will allow the crew to see the Arctic every hour and a half , and anywhere on the planet - once every two days. It is planned to equip the part of the station facing the Earth with observation systems in various spectra - from optical to radar, and the opposite side - with equipment for monitoring outer space.

The station is planned to be created in two stages. At the first stage - from 2025 to 2030 - it is planned to launch a scientific and energy, nodal, base and gateway modules, at the second stage - from 2030 to 2035 - target and target production modules, as well as a platform for servicing spacecraft.
The station will not be permanently inhabited, but will be visited by crews of 2-4 people. It can be launched from the Baikonur and Vostochny cosmodromes. At the first stage, cargo ships Progress and manned Soyuz will continue to fly to the new station, and at the second stage, manned by Eagles.

https://ria.ru/20210731/kosmos-1743717387.html

Big_Gazza wrote:

Aristide wrote:..and almost breaks it apart.

Thanks for the timely reminder of why i've had you blocked for years....  idiot....  

Idiot indeed. Another troll masturbating all over this forum.

For module thrusters to break apart the ISS would require them to be more like a main rocket engine. No maneuvering thruster
can exert the impulse force to do such damage. It will just slowly accelerate the station. The only way for a docking
module to damage the ISS is to crash into it. Clearly this "French" troll couldn't be bothered to watch the video showing
the docking which went normally.

I can't wait for 2025 when Russia detaches itself from the hater loons making up the rest of the ISS. Then they can breath
a sigh of relief that they are not risking certain death at the hands of Russians.