Whats the status of this then? Is there funding, has any hardware been built? etc..Basically, is there any chance of this not happening?
Ah, very much like the TKS. I have always been a bit wary of a hatch going through the heatshield though, surely its just something to go wrong on re-entry?
TKS lives! And is now much roomier!
Quote from: simonbp on 02/13/2011 03:58 pmTKS lives! And is now much roomier! Would I be right in saying that there is no technological reason why you couldn't have a 'float-through' capsule, with a docking interface at one end for operating with the ISS and a storage/orbital module behind it in the stack?
http://www.aex.ru/news/2011/1/17/81773/from Google Translate:"The developers of the Russian LV "Rus" had technical problems, says BBC Russian Service."At the stage of conceptual design vehicle mass exceeds the mass limit at 1660 kg", - reported, citing sources in the space industry. "I have seen this movie before.
Quote from: Danderman on 03/10/2011 10:03 pmhttp://www.aex.ru/news/2011/1/17/81773/from Google Translate:"The developers of the Russian LV "Rus" had technical problems, says BBC Russian Service."At the stage of conceptual design vehicle mass exceeds the mass limit at 1660 kg", - reported, citing sources in the space industry. "I have seen this movie before.Please note that mass of spacecraft had not been mentioned in tenders requirements, but it is limited by LV capability (still in detailed design as well).
January 20In 2009, the competition to create a space rocket complex (CRC) for the spaceport, "East" in the Far East, won the enterprise co-executors of the Federal Space Agency, Federal State Unitary Enterprise "SRP" TsSKB Progress (Samara), OAO "RKK" Energy "(Mr. Korolev, Moscow Region) and "Makeyev State Rocket Center (Miass, Chelyabinsk region).Samara Space Rocket Center TsSKB Progress "is the prime contractor for this project.Currently, the development of CRC is at the stage of engineering design. Work on the CBC "Rus-M are innovative. The complex will meet the advanced requirements of the technology of this kind in the world. In the study is based on extensive experience SRP TsSKB-Progress and cooperation of developers to create complex rocket and space technology.The TOR Roskosmos specified requirements for payload, output by the launch vehicle (LV), "Rus-M. The results obtained during the conceptual design and laid the basis for further work to confirm that the requirements of the customer in terms of output payload booster "Rus-M, as well as other requirements are fully met.Requirements for the maximum permissible weight of PH in the specifications are not set.For information:Booster "Rus-M development TsSKB-Progress is part of the CBC said. RN Rus-M "- is fundamentally a new medium, made by the" tandem "scheme. RN provides injection payloads weighing not less than 20 tons to low Earth circular orbit, and using boosters - unmanned spacecraft weighing about 7.0 tons to geosynchronous transfer orbit and a mass of about 4.0 tons into geostationary orbit.
Khrunichev Vision of the Manned Lunar program from Russian Nauka i Zhizn' April 2011 Magazine: