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Title: Russian spacecraft tender cancelled
Post by: Suzy on 07/18/2006 09:42 pm

Posting at FP Space: http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/fpspace/2006-July/020399.html

Title: Re: Russian spacecraft tender cancelled
Post by: bobthemonkey on 07/18/2006 10:51 pm

thanks for posting the update. I posted a link to the 'flight' article earlier in the news forum but it somehow disappeared - quite bizzare.

Title: RE: Russian spacecraft tender cancelled
Post by: t walker on 07/21/2006 02:16 pm

Hang on, everything's confusing me. It sais on wikipedia that Kliper is cancelled, so what does that mean? Does it mean Russia will have no manned spacecraft before long, that Soyuz will go on forever or that they are planning something else?

Title: RE: Russian spacecraft tender cancelled
Post by: InfraNut on 07/21/2006 03:26 pm

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t walker - 21/7/2006  5:03 PM

Hang on, everything's confusing me. It sais on wikipedia that Kliper is cancelled, so what does that mean? Does it mean Russia will have no manned spacecraft before long, that Soyuz will go on forever or that they are planning something else?

The government funding is shifted away from Kliper to a new capsule-based joint project with ESA, based on Soyuz (Return Capsule that is Bigger than current descent module), ATV (Service Module + Tug) and Columbus (Hab Module), since the technology is more mature and therefore less risky and expensive to develop. Detailed design and final division of work is TBD. See:

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/06/13/Navigation/200/207228/Kliper+dropped+for+lunar+capsule.html

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/07/18/Navigation/200/207935/Farnborough+Russia's+Federal+Space+Agency+cancels+manned+spacecraft.html

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/06/23/Navigation/200/207398/ESA+to+finalise+manned+capsule+contributions+at+July.html

Energia will however continue on its own with technology development in preparation for Kliper, but without government money, the original timeline will almost certainly be stretched out, and the risk of subsequent cancellation is now more significant. (Perhaps that aircraft developer they teamed with for the winged version can put in some extra cash, but that maybe just wishful thinking).

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/07/19/Navigation/200/207953/Farnborough+Energia%e2%80%99s+Kliper+work+continues+with+wind+tunnel.html

Title: Re: Russian spacecraft tender cancelled
Post by: publiusr on 08/18/2006 09:20 pm

I wonder if it wouldn't have taken Proton to launch Kliper after all...