qprmeteor - 11/3/2007 12:28 PM A quick Google came up with this PowerPoint presentation:
Details sound sketchy, but I presume if TKS and Almaz are involved, they'd need to use Protons?
To be clear, launch of the Excalibur capsule does NOT require a Proton.
Norm Hartnett - 19/3/2007 10:26 AM I didn’t see any FGB modules in any of the presentations.
In the NPO MASH - Khrunichev divorce, Khrunichev was given custody of the TKS/FGB, NPO Mash was given the OPS.
Danderman - 19/3/2007 10:43 AMQuoteNorm Hartnett - 19/3/2007 10:26 AM I didn’t see any FGB modules in any of the presentations. In the NPO MASH - Khrunichev divorce, Khrunichev was given custody of the TKS/FGB, NPO Mash was given the OPS.
Norm Hartnett - 19/3/2007 10:50 AM Ok. Presumably Khrunichev has the VA reentry capsules too or is that NPO Mash? I believe the FGBs have all been expended in MIR and the ISS except for the last one currently planned for the Russian Lab?
Actually, I recall that Khrunichev does have at least one OPS in the bowels of the enterprise, and I am told that they have some VA capsules, as well.
bobthemonkey - 1/5/2007 9:47 AMI understood that Almaz was the name of the military stations. As far as I am aware the civil DOS's (saylut, mir, Zvezda) were never officially associated with the Almaz designation.