I have been having a hard time wrapping my hands around the ins and outs of the various current and Cosmodromes under constructions. I am hoping you guys can help me out. Current/future vehicle and plans?
Baikonur - currently used by Proton, Zenit, and manned Soyuz. Russia intends to gradually move away and reduce dependence on Kazakhstan. Did I get this right?
Vostochniy - under construction in far east. What will use it?
Plesetsk - currently used by unmanned Soyuz and other smaller boosters. Future plans? Angara? PPK?
What am I missing? Thanks.
Yes, they are trying to gradually move away from Baikonur.
Plesetsk is the launch site for highly inclinations or polar orbits. Think of it as Russia's Vandenberg. The first Angara pad is being built there.
Vostochniy (or is it Vostochny?) is being built to handle the types of inclinations/orbits reached from Baikonur, but can also launch higher inclination flights. It is getting an Angara pad as well, plus a pad for whatever LV is the finally selected to launch their next generation manned spacecraft. (if not Angara)
No Zenit or Proton pad is planned at either. (The Zenit pad at Plesetsk was never finished, and is not being rebuilt as the Angara pad)
First launch table at Vostochnyi handles Soyuz and is under construction right now. It re-uses the old Rus-M technical position facility essentially unchanged. It is overkill for Soyuz, but Putin ordered first launch in 2015 and they had no time to re-site and re-design it.
An Angara pad is officially planned, possibly at the old location of Rus-M pad. Construction has not started yet, as it's currently all hands on deck to finish Soyuz facility. The pad is likely to rely on Soyuz complex for support one way or the other.
First launch table at Vostochnyi handles Soyuz and is under construction right now. It re-uses the old Rus-M technical position facility essentially unchanged. It is overkill for Soyuz, but Putin ordered first launch in 2015 and they had no time to re-site and re-design it.
An Angara pad is officially planned, possibly at the old location of Rus-M pad. Construction has not started yet, as it's currently all hands on deck to finish Soyuz facility. The pad is likely to rely on Soyuz complex for support one way or the other.
Is support for Soyuz 2.1V built in the design?
First launch table at Vostochnyi handles Soyuz and is under construction right now. It re-uses the old Rus-M technical position facility essentially unchanged. It is overkill for Soyuz, but Putin ordered first launch in 2015 and they had no time to re-site and re-design it.
An Angara pad is officially planned, possibly at the old location of Rus-M pad. Construction has not started yet, as it's currently all hands on deck to finish Soyuz facility. The pad is likely to rely on Soyuz complex for support one way or the other.
Is support for Soyuz 2.1V built in the design?
There is a comment here, about the Volga upperstage in connection with that cosmodrome
http://www.samspace.ru/zakupki/plany_zakupok/Разработка РКД на систему наземного электроснабжения спецтоками (СНЕСТ) БВ "Волга". Изготовление и поставка СНЭСТ на СК космодрома "Восточный"
First launch table at Vostochnyi handles Soyuz and is under construction right now. It re-uses the old Rus-M technical position facility essentially unchanged. It is overkill for Soyuz, but Putin ordered first launch in 2015 and they had no time to re-site and re-design it.
An Angara pad is officially planned, possibly at the old location of Rus-M pad. Construction has not started yet, as it's currently all hands on deck to finish Soyuz facility. The pad is likely to rely on Soyuz complex for support one way or the other.
Is support for Soyuz 2.1V built in the design?
There is a comment here, about the Volga upperstage in connection with that cosmodrome
http://www.samspace.ru/zakupki/plany_zakupok/
Разработка РКД на систему наземного электроснабжения спецтоками (СНЕСТ) БВ "Волга". Изготовление и поставка СНЭСТ на СК космодрома "Восточный"
good find thx.
Volga is supposed to make first flights on Soyuz-2-1A and 2-1B from the Cosmodrome Vostochnyi according to Anatoly Zak's sources. First is believed to be a 2-1A after the Luna flight but I am not sure which one since two Luna flights are planned.
Volga is supposed to make first flights on Soyuz-2-1A and 2-1B from the Cosmodrome Vostochnyi according to Anatoly Zak's sources. First is believed to be a 2-1A after the Luna flight but I am not sure which one since two Luna flights are planned.
What's the payload? Volga is way underpowered, compared to Fregat. It has got to be some kind of Earth observation payload, but what?
Volga is supposed to make first flights on Soyuz-2-1A and 2-1B from the Cosmodrome Vostochnyi according to Anatoly Zak's sources. First is believed to be a 2-1A after the Luna flight but I am not sure which one since two Luna flights are planned.
What's the payload? Volga is way underpowered, compared to Fregat. It has got to be some kind of Earth observation payload, but what?
I do not know yet but Anatoly Zak heard it again while he was at MAKS 2013.
Volga is supposed to make first flights on Soyuz-2-1A and 2-1B from the Cosmodrome Vostochnyi according to Anatoly Zak's sources. First is believed to be a 2-1A after the Luna flight but I am not sure which one since two Luna flights are planned.
What's the payload? Volga is way underpowered, compared to Fregat. It has got to be some kind of Earth observation payload, but what?
Remember that Volga is a derivative of the Ikar/Kobalt/Yantar service module, so the application could be any payload that normally would use the older service module.