Russian Space Program: News & Discussion #4

https://www.roscosmos.ru/launch/2022/
It finally happened. Now on the Roscosmos website you can find a table listing all the space launches of the USSR and Russia. All 3366 launches are there.
The number of launches in the seventies and eighties is simply unattainable.

The Russian Academy of Sciences is concerned about the plans of Roscosmos to turn on one of the two telescopes (eROSITA) disabled by Germany at the Spektr-RG space observatory
https://www.interfax.ru/russia/844905


"The Russian Academy of Sciences will discuss with Roscosmos the fate of the German eROSITA telescope, which is part of the Russian Spektr-RG observatory, scientists are concerned that the plans of the state corporation for the independent use of the telescope will harm it. The president of the Academy, Alexander Sergeev, told Interfax about this: "Our management of eROSITA is not an easy task and in some sense even risky. Because we did not create this device and we did not operate it. This technique is very serious, unique, and our scientists have concerns, will we be able to manage properly in principle? Colleagues express concern about whether we will spoil the device with this.""

I answer: no, we won't spoil it.
The telescope was turned off not by the Germans, but by Russian specialists at the request of Germany. The Spektr-RG space observatory was assembled at a Russian enterprise by Russian engineers. It was launched into space by Russian rocket scientists and launch vehicles.
Russian astronomers need a working observatory, not a de-energized piece of iron and glass dangling one and a half million kilometers from Earth. The significance of the results of the work of Spektr-RG is enormous, it is this observatory that tracks phenomena in deep space that can affect, including destructively, life on our Planet. Therefore, it's enough for us to dance to the tune of Western hysterical "partners" and our collaborators. It's enough for us that the European Space Agency ruined the joint Mars research mission "ExoMars", which was fully ready for launch in September this year. Now they want to ruin Spectrum-RG as well.
Our scientific community and our space industry should act coherently and exclusively in the interests of national science and be guided solely by our national interests. The observatory should serve higher science, and not the whims of petty European politicians, whose name no one knows and does not want to know.
Roscosmos specialists are world-class professionals. They will be able to solve the task assigned to them without damaging the control circuit of the German telescope. The time will come when the Germans will thank us themselves. Even if our own critics remain silent at the same time.
I hope that the friends of Roscosmos at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the President of the Academy, Alexander Mikhailovich Sergeev, will treat my arguments with respect and understanding.
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Scorpius wrote:https://www.roscosmos.ru/launch/2022/
It finally happened. Now on the Roscosmos website you can find a table listing all the space launches of the USSR and Russia. All 3366 launches are there.
The number of launches in the seventies and eighties is simply unattainable.

How to access this page outside of Russia?

owais.usmani wrote:

Scorpius wrote:https://www.roscosmos.ru/launch/2022/
It finally happened. Now on the Roscosmos website you can find a table listing all the space launches of the USSR and Russia. All 3366 launches are there.
The number of launches in the seventies and eighties is simply unattainable.

How to access this page outside of Russia?

You can use a web proxy. For example -

Rogozin: Axiom Space with a delay paid Roskosmos for an astronaut's flight to the ISS in rubles

Phase 5, acceptance

MOSCOW, June 11 - RIA Novosti. The American company paid Roskosmos in rubles for the flight of astronaut Mark Vande Hay to the International Space Station, said the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
According to him, Roskosmos received full funding, but not from NASA , but from Axiom, which acted as an intermediary.

They promised to pay us by the end of May, I will say this, they were exactly a month late, that is, there was a delay,” Rogozin said, adding that all the funds were returned in rubles.

According to him, when organizing the Vande Hay flight, NASA understood that they were under pressure from the US Congress, so they chose the private company Axiom Space as an intermediary and ordered the flight from them. Axiom bought a seat on a Russian ship.
In April, the head of Roskosmos said that the payment for the flight was delayed, and the American partners referred to logistical problems, but expressed confidence that the Russian side would receive the full amount - two billion rubles.

https://ria.ru/20220611/kosmos-1794743916.html

Phase 5, acceptance paying in Rubles

And the current plan is for Phase 5 to last while the ISS lasts and then Phase 6, ISS is deorbited and a Russian replacement station is built, hopefully from scratch.

GarryB wrote:And the current plan is for Phase 5 to last while the ISS lasts and then Phase 6, ISS is deorbited and a Russian replacement station is built, hopefully from scratch.

Me thinks Russians can keep selling flight tickets as long as there is demand in rubles

But once the Russian space station is in orbit there will be a lot of things they wont want the US to see... Trump posters, and Hillary Clinton dart boards.

I have just realised... how different would a game of darts be in space with no gravity and the dart travelling in a straight line to the target...

Maybe a velcro tipped dart at some fluffy dart boards rather than metal pointed darts...

GarryB wrote:But once the Russian space station is in orbit there will be a lot of things they wont want the US to see...  Trump posters, and Hillary Clinton dart boards.

I have just realised... how different would a game of darts be in space with no gravity and the dart travelling in a straight line to the target...

Maybe a velcro tipped dart at some fluffy dart boards rather than metal pointed darts...

on ISS metal pointed ones. They know how to fix holes already

Roscosmos has signed a contract with IMBP RAS for research work on the development of technologies for deep space exploration. It will be dedicated to:

Study of radiation and hypomagnetic risks;
the use of information and communication technologies of medical and biological support;
development of life support biosystems;
studying the possibility of using artificial hibernation.

One of its features is the use of mathematical modeling methods in the interests of space medicine. Mathematical models in the field of the radiation situation of deep space, the influence of hypomagnetic conditions on biological objects, the reaction of the cardiovascular system to artificial gravity conditions and other applied problems will allow us to find optimal solutions, the search for which experimentally may require lengthy and expensive research.

This work should be a synthesis of knowledge and experience of specialists in various fields of science

Photo of the NEM module under construction (ROSS base module) and its stand-in for testing.

Communication tunnels at the launch complex of the Angara rocket. The total length of the tunnels at the cosmodrome exceeds 9 kilometers. To understand the scale of construction and the amount of work needed.