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Offline Damon Hill

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Re: BBC: images of Russian-European manned spacecraft
« Reply #20 on: 08/02/2008 06:52 am »
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/acts.html

This is a cutaway view of the spacecraft; I don't know how "official" it is and it may be speculative or partially based on information available to the artist.  So this must be a very notional image, since so few details have been officially worked out at this point in time.

Seems like a fair bit of space and mass is devoted to the touchdown rockets (comparison to Zayra "super-Soyuz" concept with liquid rockets--these must be solid fuel).

Note single-layer flight deck with toe-to-toe crew seating and a fairly long access tunnel to the docking hatch.

What changes would be required for a lunar version--might the landing rockets be removed to save mass and a water landing system developed in its place?

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Re: BBC: images of Russian-European manned spacecraft
« Reply #21 on: 08/02/2008 07:54 am »
To add some hard facts to the issue, here's a document by EADS on the ideas for crewed capsules so far, including CSTS.

http://spaceflight.esa.int/strategy/pages/PDF/home/events/integrated_architecture_review/8_July/01.Human_mission_to_LEO.pdf
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Re: BBC: images of Russian-European manned spacecraft
« Reply #22 on: 08/02/2008 10:23 am »
Reading this last PDF it seems the CSTS capsule is meant to be reusable, probably this is the reason for the soft landing system.

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Re: BBC: images of Russian-European manned spacecraft
« Reply #23 on: 08/02/2008 10:37 am »
Reading this last PDF it seems the CSTS capsule is meant to be reusable, probably this is the reason for the soft landing system.

Indeed, there's no way you could realistically re-use a capsule cominglike a Soyuz. As well as that however i suspect it could be due to the Russian desire to use the capsules for space-tourist flights.  The rough landings of the Soyuz are not acceptable to many wealthy people who want to go into space.  (this was part of the rational for the Kilper design)
« Last Edit: 08/02/2008 10:47 am by Alpha_Centauri »

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