Never underestimate Russians - they always have a few spare aces under the sleave. Roscosmos under new management would receive a lot of funding from Department of Defence - back to USSR. And Russian industry got a lot of brand new state of the art machinery from the West to compensate for collapse of Soviet machine building industry. There is a good old Russian proverb that Russians usually spent a lot of time to prepare horses for racing but as soon as they ready they usually quick enough to win the horse race
Quote from: fregate on 07/10/2018 07:45 amNever underestimate Russians - they always have a few spare aces under the sleave. Roscosmos under new management would receive a lot of funding from Department of Defence - back to USSR. And Russian industry got a lot of brand new state of the art machinery from the West to compensate for collapse of Soviet machine building industry. There is a good old Russian proverb that Russians usually spent a lot of time to prepare horses for racing but as soon as they ready they usually quick enough to win the horse race Sounds more like they are starving the horse...
SHLV Development had been funded as special purpose state program with dedicated funding outside of Federal Space Program FSP 2016-2025
Yet another(?) Russian HLV design:Looks like this proposal 7 cores, with 4 RD-171 boosters staging first, followed by 2 more, and then the core has an RD-180 which allows it to burn longer. Rather complex , I'm doubtful it will ever fly.https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1067060601669726208
Quote from: Lars-J on 11/26/2018 08:00 pmYet another(?) Russian HLV design:Looks like this proposal 7 cores, with 4 RD-171 boosters staging first, followed by 2 more, and then the core has an RD-180 which allows it to burn longer. Rather complex , I'm doubtful it will ever fly.https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1067060601669726208Not that heavy if only Federatsia on top?
Quote from: Lars-J on 11/26/2018 08:00 pmYet another(?) Russian HLV design:Looks like this proposal 7 cores, with 4 RD-171 boosters staging first, followed by 2 more, and then the core has an RD-180 which allows it to burn longer. Rather complex , I'm doubtful it will ever fly.Not that heavy if only Federatsia on top?
Yet another(?) Russian HLV design:Looks like this proposal 7 cores, with 4 RD-171 boosters staging first, followed by 2 more, and then the core has an RD-180 which allows it to burn longer. Rather complex , I'm doubtful it will ever fly.
Quote from: Asteroza on 11/26/2018 10:55 pmQuote from: Lars-J on 11/26/2018 08:00 pmYet another(?) Russian HLV design:Looks like this proposal 7 cores, with 4 RD-171 boosters staging first, followed by 2 more, and then the core has an RD-180 which allows it to burn longer. Rather complex , I'm doubtful it will ever fly.https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1067060601669726208Not that heavy if only Federatsia on top? Picture shows a man-rated launcher for lunar missions - LEO payload apart of Federation would also include TLI and LOI space tugs in order to deliver a spacecraft into cislunar space. Cargo versions would have a bigger payload capability to deliver lunar orbital station and surface lunar base modules.For everything else - I mean LEO missions it will be a Soyuz-5 lunch vehicle.
Thrust at liftoff would be about 47 MN compared to Saturn V at 35 MN, SLS at 39 MN, N1 at 45 MN and Super Heavy at 62 MN. Yes, it is a "heavy".
What is the name the this new rocket? Energia 3 or Energia 5? It's will be reusable?