Author Topic: Ukraine’s Yuzhnoye Coming to the Cape?  (Read 38991 times)

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Re: Ukraine’s Yuzhnoye Coming to the Cape?
« Reply #60 on: 06/11/2011 07:51 pm »

I refer, of course, to the Titan ICBM, which utilized the same manufacturing tools and tankage structures for both the Kerolox fueled HGM-25A and hypergolic fueled LGM-25C versions.

that is not "common" tankage.  The tank sizes were changed for the different mixture ratios.

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Re: Ukraine’s Yuzhnoye Coming to the Cape?
« Reply #61 on: 06/12/2011 04:20 pm »

I refer, of course, to the Titan ICBM, which utilized the same manufacturing tools and tankage structures for both the Kerolox fueled HGM-25A and hypergolic fueled LGM-25C versions.

that is not "common" tankage.  The tank sizes were changed for the different mixture ratios.
Yes, but they were built from the same material on the same machines producing the same components which make up the tank side by side.  That is what I mentioned here. 
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Re: Ukraine’s Yuzhnoye Coming to the Cape?
« Reply #62 on: 07/21/2011 11:58 pm »
Ukraine has put a  utube site up with a buch of videos for us space geeks.
 
http://www.nkau.gov.ua/pdf/videonews.html
 
lots of interesting stuff in there like sealaunch video not seen before.
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Re: Ukraine’s Yuzhnoye Coming to the Cape?
« Reply #63 on: 01/31/2014 04:39 am »
Cyclone 4 uses 3 meter tooling, whereas Zenit and Taurus II are 3.8 meters in diameter, so its not the same chassis.  Mayak may use the 3.8 meter tooling, but its avionics would be different from Taurus II, and possibly different from the Russian Biser used by Zenit.

The largest LOX/kerosene engine produced by Yuzhmash is the RD-120; four of those may power the first stage of the larger Mayaks. The other possibility is a magical conversion of the RD-2XX engines to kerosene.

I've found both 3m and 3.9m listed for the Cyclone-4. 

The only part of Cyclone 4 that may be 3.9 meters in diameter would be the payload shroud. The main tankage is 3 meters, same as Dnepr, which was designed to fit in the same silos.

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