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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #40 on: 12/27/2012 06:51 am »
Photos of areas 1 and 2 of Vostochniy cosmodrome from Novosti kosmonavtiki forum.

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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #41 on: 01/09/2013 04:46 am »
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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #42 on: 01/09/2013 08:54 pm »
Nice to see some progress - What rocket families are they constructing pads for first? Angara? Soyuz?
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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #43 on: 01/10/2013 01:16 am »
Nice to see some progress - What rocket families are they constructing pads for first? Angara? Soyuz?

A pad for the Soyuz series (it's been discussed above). Angara should also launch from there as well, but since it only took over the place of the canceled Rus-M lately, the pad for it has yet to be built.
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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #44 on: 01/10/2013 11:46 am »
It looks very much like less talk about Vostochniy, and more action (building) is taking place.
 
 
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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #45 on: 01/10/2013 12:19 pm »
Angara pad construction may start in 2015, once they have verified its operation in Plesetsk. Also, as per Anatoly Zak, in 20 years time even this baby may find a home in Vostochny:

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/yenisei5.html

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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #46 on: 01/10/2013 05:19 pm »
They posted synopsyses from several papers presented at random Russian space industry meet-ups, including one about testing the new design of the flame trench for Angara in Vostochnyi, using 1:30 scale. I did not see the article itself, but I saw pictures of the 1:30 tests before. Typically they involve a solid rocket engine and the model made from iron sheets. The objective of the testing is to validate the design. The flame trench in Plesetsk was adapted from the Zenit design and it turned out not acceptable for manned launches due to acoustic loads it creates. According to the synopsys, the new design for Vostochnyi keeps the general geometry of the fixed tower, but reprofiles the trench in order to reduce acoustic loads to levels permissible for manned flights.

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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #47 on: 01/11/2013 12:37 pm »
Angara pad construction may start in 2015, once they have verified its operation in Plesetsk. Also, as per Anatoly Zak, in 20 years time even this baby may find a home in Vostochny:

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/yenisei5.html

oh that is a good story.   ;)
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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #48 on: 01/19/2013 07:58 am »


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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #50 on: 02/01/2013 06:26 pm »
Report about the recent visit of Popovkin, along with few pictures:

http://www.amur.info/news/2013/02/01/28.html

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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #51 on: 02/01/2013 06:58 pm »
Report about the recent visit of Popovkin, along with few pictures:

http://www.amur.info/news/2013/02/01/28.html

Based on those photos, I would say that there is a good chance that some launch pads are going to be built there within a few years.

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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #52 on: 02/01/2013 09:29 pm »
http://www.amur.info/news/2013/02/01/28.html
Love the "related" headlines column:
 - "Руководство столовой космодрома Восточный заплатило штраф за мясо и консервы без документов" == Management of cafeteria of Spaceport Vostochny paid fine for undocumented meat and canned goods
 - "Строительная организация заплатит 800 тысяч рублей за незаконно добытый песок" == Construction contractor is to pay 800,000 Roubles for illegally mined sand
 - "Глава Роскосмоса убедил президента увеличить финансирование космического агентства" == Head of Roscosmos persuaded President to increase financing - well duh, someone has to pay all those fines

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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #53 on: 02/01/2013 09:32 pm »
Based on those photos, I would say that there is a good chance that some launch pads are going to be built there within a few years.
Photo 4/5 is the management building, not a pad or technical position. You can tell easily because it's curved. Freaking Russian Le Courbusiers and Lloyd Wrights, and also bureacrats cannot manage a S-p-a-c-e-D-R-O-M-E from a plain gray concrete box. Sacre Bleu!
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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #55 on: 03/05/2013 08:47 am »

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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #57 on: 04/04/2013 11:48 pm »
Interview with Head of Russian Federal Space Agemcy V.Popovkin by Elena Objedkova (Business Breakfast in Rossiyskaya Newspaper, Moscow 4th of April 2013)
Первую ракету с космодрома "Восточный" запустят в 2015 году
First rocket from Vostochny spaceport would be launched in 2015.
Short summary:
- Major spaceport infrastructure to be completed in 2014;
- One Soyuz-2 LV launch complex to be build first; 
- Two "Heavy" Angara LV launch complexes to be built (one for manned and one for cargo LVs), cargo "Heavy" Angara LV launch complex to be created earlier in 2015 (originally planned for 2016);
- "Superheavy" LV (payload in range 75-130 metric tonnes) launch complex under consideration, first LV would have 75 metric tonne, increase of payload would be achieved by increase of propellant in strap-on booster;
- Superheavy LV is planned to construct a Mars Mission assembly on HEO by 4 dockings (total mass up to 450 metric tonnes); 
- First launch from spaceport - in 2015 (Popovkin did not specify which LV, IMHO most likely Soyuz-2);   
- ISS crew transportation to be provided by Soyuz-TMA spacecraft and further modifications (at least till 2020 and if ISS program would be extended - till 2028) - all Soyuz manned missions to be performed exclusively from Baikonur;
- Russian-Kazakhstan join space project Baiterek would use Zenit LV (instead of non-ready Angara LV) on Baikonur spaceport; 
- New Generation manned transportation vehicle PTK NP unmanned test flight to be performed from Baikonur on top of Zenit LV.
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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #58 on: 04/05/2013 09:12 am »
- First launch from spaceport - in 2015 (Popovkin did not specify which LV, IMHO most likely Soyuz-2)

He specified that the launch will be in November 2015.

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Re: Vostochniy cosmodrome - updates
« Reply #59 on: 04/05/2013 03:10 pm »
even with the dates, still a very agressive program.
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