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#780
by
Stan Black
on 05 Jul, 2012 18:31
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So does the launch pads in Baikonur/Plesetsk still turns before a launch of a Soyuz-2 LV, given that it is not necessary to do so?
Launch pads 31/6 and 43/4, which are modernized for Soyuz-2 rockets, do not turn before Soyuz-2 launches.
Can they still turn, rotate?
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#781
by
Suzy
on 07 Sep, 2012 05:44
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Do cosmonauts still do their flight training in the L-39? My information is that the Russian Air Force disbanded the air wing in late 2009, but a
Roskosmos video shows cosmonauts still flying the jet.
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#782
by
Olaf
on 07 Sep, 2012 14:00
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Do cosmonauts still do their flight training in the L-39? My information is that the Russian Air Force disbanded the air wing in late 2009, but a Roskosmos video shows cosmonauts still flying the jet.
The L-39 are now part of the TsPK, not of the Russian air force.
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#783
by
Zero-G
on 13 Sep, 2012 10:05
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In the theme park "Europa Park" in Rust, near Freiburg in Southwest Germany, there is a full-size mockup of the Mir space station, including the core, Kvant-1, Kvant-2 and Kristall modules. It is there since 1994 and is supposed to be a former "training model".
I wonder if this is really true? Where was it located originally and what was it really built and used for originally?
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#784
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 30 Sep, 2012 12:06
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Could someone explain me what is, in Russian terminology, a "Command Radio Link" ?
Russian : БКРЛ (бортовая командная радиолиния).
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#785
by
ChileVerde
on 30 Sep, 2012 13:54
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Could someone explain me what is, in Russian terminology, a "Command Radio Link" ?
Russian : БКРЛ (бортовая командная радиолиния).
I believe it's what's called a "command uplink" in US terminology.
See
http://vostoksupersite.weebly.com/ground-support.html for examples. (The stuff at the bottom is for the telemetry downlink and, as usual, mistranslates "kontrol'" as "control.")
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#786
by
aquarius
on 27 Oct, 2012 17:32
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Am I right in thinking that Laveikin was the last person to have returned to earth earlier than planned because of a medical condition?
Thanks.
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#787
by
Stan Black
on 09 Jan, 2013 18:36
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So how to interpret these designations?
...
Comments?
11F632 No. 138151102 has probably an omission -- number should be either 8 or 10 digits. Of course there existed six-digit numbers in 1958-1959 but we consider the period of the 1970s and later.
Right now, there are two probable lines of decoding, the same for launch vehicles and spacecraft...
11F695 No. 47822563
478 = code of producer (probably three for each space company)
22 = code of production date (half-year and year)
next two digits in a 10-digit number probably aren't significant
563 = actual number
Sequential production number (as known for Molniyas) may be based on this three-digit number (as in 1990s and 2000s) or may be quite different. Molniya 3 58 and 59 are also known as 258 and 259 etc. But the very first Molniya 3 was 80091198...
It's those 'quite different' cases that are frustrating me. If they actually carry information it would be nice to know what. If they are just random noise meant to confuse for security reasons, I don't see any reason to use them.
I suspect you mean that the three-digit number may be based on the sequential production number (not the other way around)? Surely the sequential production number exists first, and then someone makes up the
three-digit-number? Or not?
Another line of thinking is that first four digits in a 8D-number are insignificant (while these do contain producer's code), the next two are a party code and the last two are the number in the party. Essentially this is equivalent to say that each year we have several parties of vehicles depending on their purpose.
I think you mean 'block' or 'subseries' not 'party'
Yes, I am almost inclined to the latter model but there are cases where the rollover in the last digits of 99 to 100 does make the previous digit change... I might suggest first four digits are producercode+noise,
next 2.5 digits are subseries code and last 2.5 digits are number in subseries
It looks like these 8 or 10-digit numbers are more order or procurement numbers. They are not what is used in the factory? For TsSKB-Progress they use machine-series numbers and for Lavochkin there is a four digit number?
One other thing to note is that the fifth-digit indicating year is the same across manufactures for payloads to fly on Soyuz or Molniya rockets.
So my best guess of year of release
11Ф637 №11Л 80091198 1974 21.11.1974
11Ф637 №12Л 79491199 1974 14.04.1975
11Ф637 №13Л 80041200 1974/2 14.11.1975
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11Ф637 №15Л 79456515 1975/2 27.12.1975
11Ф637 №16Л 80056516 1975/2 12.05.1976
11Ф637 №17Л 79412617 1976 28.12.1976
11Ф637 №18Л 80062618 1976/2 28.10.1977
11Ф637 №19Л 79462619 1976/2 28.04.1977
11Ф637 №20Л 80062620 1976/2 24.01.1978
11Ф637 №21Л 79428721 1977 05.06.1979
11Ф637 №22Л 80088722 1977/2 13.10.1978
11Ф637 №23Л 79488723 1977/2 18.01.1979
11Ф637 №24Л 80088724 1977/2 24.03.1981
11Ф637 №25Л 79425825 1978 09.01.1981
11Ф637 №26Л 80095826 1978/2 18.04.1980
11Ф637 №27Л 79495827 1978/2 18.07.1980
11Ф637 №28Л 80027800 1979 11.09.1981
11Ф637 №29Л 79427801 1979 24.03.1982
11Ф637 №30Л 80043830 1980 09.06.1981
11Ф637 №31Л 79473831 1980/2 17.10.1981
11Ф637 №32Л 80059132 1981 30.08.1983
11Ф637 №33Л 79459133 1981 27.08.1982
11Ф637 №34Л 80014234 1982 11.03.1983
11Ф637 №35Л 79414235 1982 21.12.1983
11Ф637 №36Л 80054236 1982/2 16.01.1985
11Ф637 №37Л 79454237 1982/2 17.07.1985
11Ф637 №38Л 80092338 1983 03.10.1985
11Ф637 №39Л 79422339 1983/2 29.05.1985
11Ф637 №40Л 80056440 1984 24.12.1985
11Ф637 №41Л 79456441 1984 20.10.1986
11Ф637 №42Л 80076442 1984/2 22.01.1987
11Ф637 №43Л 79476443 1984/2 18.04.1986
11Ф637 №44Л 80071544 1985 19.06.1986
11Ф637 №45Л 79471545 1985 08.06.1989
11Ф637 №46Л 80091546 1985/2 28.11.1989
11Ф637 №47Л 79448147 1986 13.06.1990
11Ф637 №48Л 80048148 1986 17.09.1991
11Ф637 №49Л 79425249 1987 26.05.1988
11Ф637 №50Л 250 14.10.1992
11Ф637 №51Л 79469351 1988 29.09.1988
11Ф637 №52Л 80089352 1988/2 22.12.1988
11Ф637 №53Л 79489353 1988/2 23.01.1990
11Ф637 №54Л 80017454 1989 20.09.1990
11Ф637 №55Л 79453355 1990 22.03.1991
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11Ф637 №64Л 80035764 1998 25.10.2001
11Ф637 №65Л 79474365 2000 19.06.2003
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#788
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 12 Jan, 2013 11:09
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Am I right in thinking that Laveikin was the last person to have returned to earth earlier than planned because of a medical condition?
Thanks.
Zholobov too, during Soyuz-21 flight to Salyut-5 space station.
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#789
by
Archibald
on 30 Jan, 2013 08:10
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(I hope this is the right place to ask that question)
In the
Challenge to Apollo monography Asif Siddiqi mentions that
In the case of the LOK, sixteen ships had been originally ordered. Of these, by February 1970, seven had been manufactured, although only three were being ground-tested for future flight operations
Only one LOK was ever flown, on the last N-1 late 1972.
The obvious question is, does anybody knows what happened to all the other LOKs ? were they scrapped ? I mean, we are talking about a bunch of lunar Soyuz(s) there...
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#790
by
Danderman
on 30 Jan, 2013 14:51
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(I hope this is the right place to ask that question)
In the Challenge to Apollo monography Asif Siddiqi mentions that
In the case of the LOK, sixteen ships had been originally ordered. Of these, by February 1970, seven had been manufactured, although only three were being ground-tested for future flight operations
Only one LOK was ever flown, on the last N-1 late 1972.
The obvious question is, does anybody knows what happened to all the other LOKs ? were they scrapped ? I mean, we are talking about a bunch of lunar Soyuz(s) there...
There is one at MAI, and one sitting underneath Korolyev College.
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#791
by
manboy
on 18 Feb, 2013 04:13
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What will be the last mission that Kurs-A will be used on?
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#792
by
Danderman
on 18 Feb, 2013 04:33
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What will be the last mission that Kurs-A will be used on?
Kurs-A will be around for a long time, since it represents the active component of any Kurs system.
What is going away is Kurs-cm, the current centimeter band version which has been around since the mid-1980s. Kurs-cm has both active and passive components.
The new system had some problems during its test on Progress, so I cannot say when it will be flown exclusively, so that the current Kurs system can be retired.
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#793
by
manboy
on 18 Feb, 2013 04:47
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What will be the last mission that Kurs-A will be used on?
Kurs-A will be around for a long time, since it represents the active component of any Kurs system.
What is going away is Kurs-cm, the current centimeter band version which has been around since the mid-1980s. Kurs-cm has both active and passive components.
The new system had some problems during its test on Progress, so I cannot say when it will be flown exclusively, so that the current Kurs system can be retired.
Thanks.
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#794
by
Nickolai
on 18 Mar, 2013 16:04
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Did the Russians do a sort of "go/no go" polling like they do in America? Does anyone have any footage of them doing such a poll?
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#795
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 18 Mar, 2013 16:17
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Did the Russians do a sort of "go/no go" polling like they do in America? Does anyone have any footage of them doing such a poll?
I think they do, although given that most of the staff on console are doing this in the underground bunker (at least for most Soyuz / Proton launches) it's not as visible as launches from other countries.
Also they use numbers as console callsigns (e.g. 1 = launch director; the Chinese use a similar system with the LD at console zero).
Maybe someone here can expand on this....
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#796
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 18 Mar, 2013 18:52
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#797
by
Stan Black
on 19 Mar, 2013 11:04
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#798
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 19 Mar, 2013 17:14
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It was my first thought, but it seems to be too little... Don't you think so ?
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#799
by
erioladastra
on 19 Mar, 2013 23:40
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Did the Russians do a sort of "go/no go" polling like they do in America? Does anyone have any footage of them doing such a poll?
I don't believe they do.