Russian Space Program: News & Discussion #4

The ship is expected to dock at the Rassvet module of the Russian segment of the station at approximately 20:11 Moscow time

BAIKONUR COSMODROME /Kazakhstan/, September 21. /TASS/. The ship "K. E. Tsiolkovsky" ("Soyuz MS-22") with cosmonauts Sergei Prokopiev, Dmitry Petelin, who will become the third TASS special correspondent on the ISS, as well as astronaut Francisco Rubio, separated from the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket, reports corr. TASS.

The flight to the ISS will follow a two-orbit scheme. The ship is expected to dock at the Rassvet module (MIM-1) of the Russian segment of the station at approximately 20:11 Moscow time.

According to the plan, the space mission should last 188 days - until March 28. At this time, it is planned to conduct 49 scientific experiments under the Russian program. This is the first crossover flight with the US.

Also, the ship will deliver about 120 kg of payloads, including on-board documentation, sanitary and hygienic supplies and medical control, scientific equipment, personal belongings of astronauts and the TASS space symbol - Inotasya.

The AngoSat-2 satellite is based on the Express-1000N platform developed by Russia’s Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company

BAIKONUR COSMODROME /Kazakhstan/, October 12. /TASS/. A Proton-M carrier rocket with an AngoSat-2 telecoms satellite for Angola blasted off from site No. 81 at the Baikonur spaceport, a TASS correspondent reported from the scene.

The rocket’s head unit comprising a DM-03 booster and the satellite was set to separate from the rocket’s upper stage in 584 seconds after the launch. It will take the booster several hours to deliver the satellite into the designated orbit.

Russia and Angola agreed on creating an AngoSat-2 telecoms satellite instead of the defunct Angosat-1 space vehicle launched from the Baikonur spaceport on December 26, 2017. Contact with the satellite was lost the next day after its launch.

The AngoSat-2 satellite is based on the Express-1000N platform developed by Russia’s Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company. The payload module that maintains communications in the C, Ku and Ka frequency bands was delivered by Europe’s Airbus Group. The satellite will operate at 23 degrees east longitude. The telecoms satellite is designed to operate for 15 years.

Angolan Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technology and Social Communication Mario Augusto da Silva Oliveira told reporters on October 11 that the satellite’s operation would begin 90 days after the launch when all technical and technological procedures were over.

Big_Gazza wrote:Russia’s Proton-M rocket with telecoms satellite for Angola blasts off from Baikonur

The AngoSat-2 satellite is based on the Express-1000N platform developed by Russia’s Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company

BAIKONUR COSMODROME /Kazakhstan/, October 12. /TASS/. A Proton-M carrier rocket with an AngoSat-2 telecoms satellite for Angola blasted off from site No. 81 at the Baikonur spaceport, a TASS correspondent reported from the scene.

The rocket’s head unit comprising a DM-03 booster and the satellite was set to separate from the rocket’s upper stage in 584 seconds after the launch. It will take the booster several hours to deliver the satellite into the designated orbit.

Russia and Angola agreed on creating an AngoSat-2 telecoms satellite instead of the defunct Angosat-1 space vehicle launched from the Baikonur spaceport on December 26, 2017. Contact with the satellite was lost the next day after its launch.

The AngoSat-2 satellite is based on the Express-1000N platform developed by Russia’s Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company. The payload module that maintains communications in the C, Ku and Ka frequency bands was delivered by Europe’s Airbus Group. The satellite will operate at 23 degrees east longitude. The telecoms satellite is designed to operate for 15 years.

Angolan Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technology and Social Communication Mario Augusto da Silva Oliveira told reporters on October 11 that the satellite’s operation would begin 90 days after the launch when all technical and technological procedures were over.

Launch video



This stretches the run of successful launches to 81, plus 9 starts from Kourou

kvs wrote:Soloviev, a Russian TV commentator, noted that Rogozin's requests for funding should have been heeded and
Russia would have more of the necessary operational satellites that it needs...

PapaDragon wrote:

kvs wrote:Soloviev, a Russian TV commentator, noted that Rogozin's requests for funding should have been heeded and
Russia would have more of the necessary operational satellites that it needs...

Rogozin was illiterate flat-earther moron who spent more time posting stupid shit on Twitter than doing anything even remotely related to his job, who fucked up pretty much everything he was even attached to and constantly made Russia look like a massive joke simply by association

Giving money to any organization under him would have been equivalent of giving money to Russian Navy in 2000s, cash down the drain

He was replaced with Borisov who actually has extensive track record behind him and almost zero social media footprint, this is who you give money to

Scorpius wrote:Launches are also planned on October 18 from Plesetsk and October 26 from Baikonur. In total , 6 space launches from three Russian cosmodromes should be carried out in October .

COSMODROME VOSTOCHNY /Amur Region/, October 22. /TASS/. The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with three Gonets-M satellites and the Skif-D spacecraft launched under the Sphere program launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome, a TASS correspondent reports from the scene.

Approximately nine minutes later, the head part, the Fregat upper stage with four satellites, will separate from the third stage. The further withdrawal of the devices will take a little more than four hours. It will be carried out using the accelerating unit.

This is the first rocket launch in 2022 from Vostochny. Satellites "Gonets-M" for the first time went into orbit from this cosmodrome. Also, "Skif-D" is the first device launched under the "Sphere" program.

Former Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said at the time that the Sfera program would include five satellite constellations providing telecom services, and another five designed for monitoring.

KOROLEV /Moscow Region/, October 26. /TASS/. Russia’s Soyuz carrier rocket with the Progress MS-21 space freighter blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan early on Wednesday, a TASS correspondent reported from the Mission Control Center.

Rocket orbited the Progress MS-21 space freighter carrying equipment, food and New Year presents for cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The space freighter successfully separated from the upper stage of Soyuz-2-1a launched earlier.

Its flight to the International Space Station (ISS) will be carried under the two-day scheme. Progress MS-21 is to dock with the Poisk research module of the Russian ISS segment at 05:50 Moscow time on October 28.

The spacecraft is to deliver over 2,500 kilograms of cargo to the ISS, including 702 kilograms of fuel, 420 kilograms of water, 41 kilograms of nitrogen and around 1,357 kilograms of various equipment.

It will also deliver fresh food and clothes for the ISS crew and filament coils for 3D printing on board the orbital outpost.

The space freighter is also carrying New Year presents for the ISS crew, Russian cosmonaut and TASS special correspondent aboard the ISS Dmitry Petelin reported. The presents were packed by the cosmonauts’ family members and the psychological support team, and will be unboxed on New Year’s Eve.

On October 7, 2022, a successful demonstration launch of a rocket engine based on oxygen-hydrogen components took place at the site of JSC "Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering" in the city of Nizhnyaya Salda, Sverdlovsk Region. Work on the project to create a reusable rocket propulsion system with a central body is carried out under the program of the national project "Science and Universities," the ANO "Regional Infrastructure of Education and Science" reported. At the site of the Scientific Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering, demonstration launches of a propulsion system with a central body were made, consisting of 16 rocket engines, which are combined into a single system. The rocket and space complex demonstrator for the returnable reusable launch vehicle includes control and monitoring systems with artificial intelligence and has no analogues in the world. This year, after a large amount of theoretical and design work, the demonstrator of the first stage engine was successfully tested on the oxygen-hydrogen fuel pair, which provides the maximum energy performance for the launch vehicle.

This is a big and exciting step in our project, because the oxygen-hydrogen fuel pair is a very explosive mixture, few people in the world know how to work with such engines: Russia, the USA and China {Big_Gazza edit: and India}. Now we are moving to a new stage, only this fuel pair will ensure the fulfillment of all the tasks. Therefore, we initially set the task of switching to oxygen and hydrogen, there were many doubts, because it is very difficult. Not everything worked out right away, but the launch took place, the central body, cooled, has already worked. Without exaggeration, this is world class. There is not a single scientific publication that would describe the launch of an engine demonstrator with a cooled central body running on oxygen and hydrogen, so we can say that these two launches, which took place, are the first in the world. The challenges we face now”, says  Sergey Vaulin , SUSU Vice-Rector for Scientific and Educational Centers and Complexes.

Work on the project is supported by the Governor of the Chelyabinsk region  Alexei Teksler . The regional government allocated 50 million rubles, another 5 million were sent by South Ural State University and 10 million by the Ural REC. The project is being implemented jointly with the State Rocket Center named after Academician V.P. Makeev (Miass), JSC Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (Nizhnyaya Salda).

The demonstrator of a liquid-propellant rocket engine with a central body is similar to that which will be used in a promising reusable launch vehicle, which is being created today at the State Rocket Center named after V.P. Makeev. It is ten times smaller than a real engine ,” said Vladimir Degtyar, Director General and General Designer of the State Rocket Center named after V.P. Makeev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Work on the carrier rocket "CROWN" Since the 90s of the XX century, the SRC has been conducting initiative design work on a reusable single-stage vertical take-off and landing launch vehicle KORONA (Space Orbital Rocket - Single-stage Spacecraft Carrier). All LV engines use oxygen/hydrogen components. Most KORONA launcher systems are designed as modular. The launch vehicle provides for a high degree of autonomy in the performance of a flight mission, up to the independent completion of the flight in the event of a loss of communication with the control center. The design life of the design of the launch vehicle elements, most of its instruments and units is at least 100 flights, the OM and SOPP engines are at least 50, individual, especially energy-intensive units are at least 25.

Sources:
South Ural State University
National Projects.rf