Samara plans to resume production of rocket engines

C7 Space Transportation Systems (S7 Space is part of the S7 Group) has announced plans to build a NK-33 rocket engine plant in Samara, reports RIA News.

To this end, the company intends to redeem from the United Engine Corporation (UEC) all the necessary documentation and tooling for production.

We would like to buy from the state the world-famous NK-33 and NK-43 engines, which were previously produced by the Kuznetsov plant in Samara, as well as documentation, accessories, technical reserves,

said Sergey Popov, CEO of S7 Space.

According to him, the company plans to restore the production of engines by building a new plant in Samara for this. Currently, the S7 Space proposal is being discussed in the government. In parallel, negotiations are underway with the JDC.

He said that the total cost of resuming production is estimated at $ 300 million. This amount includes not only the production of rocket engines, but also control systems that the company intends to do on its own.

The construction of the plant should take about 6 years. During this time period it is planned to use NK-33 and NK-43, which are in storage. Their total number is 36 units.

Recall that in 2016, the S7 Group purchased the Sea Launch project - the launch platform Odyssey, the command ship and ground infrastructure in the US port of Long Beach. From the platform, it is possible to launch Zenit missiles, and later on a new Soyuz-5 missile. At the same time, the company has repeatedly criticized the project “Soyuz-5” for the use of outdated technologies and promoted the idea of ​​creating a reusable media. According to representatives of the S7 Group, the company plans to make 15 years before 70 starts.

NK-33 and NK-43 are upgraded engines from the Soviet superheavy H-1 rocket. Currently, they are used in the composition of the first stage of the Soyuz-2.1v light missile. Previously produced engines are now stored at PJSC “Kuznetsov”.

Comments

[AID.S]

bought the Sea Launch project - Odyssey launch platform, command ship and ground infrastructure in the US port of Long Beach.

This is somehow annoying.

[maxim947]

NK-33 was developed in the 60s ... Talk about the resumption of its production at SNTK them. Kuznetsov went constantly the last 10 years, and while they were about to resume, they came to the conclusion that they were late, and this is no longer possible. Now they are thinking about a new plant. How strange and sad it all looks. A sea launch with a support vessel is where off the coast of America, and every year we pay for rent, and the mattresses are for us to bring astronauts to the ISS, everything is in parity ...

The final settlement between Energy and S7 is scheduled for June 2017 - before this date, the command ship and launch platform will be re-registered from California to Liberia

and from the company’s statement:

S7 hopes to complete first launch as early as 2017

we (they) until we gather everything rusts to holes.

[maxim947]

I would very much like the project to succeed, that it be completely Russian and that the platform with the ships is deployed with us.

[Gargantua]

Question: Where do we base this platform? "Here you are not flat, here the climate is different and here the avalanche is one by one ..."

[maxim947]

Where is your avalanche, I don’t know. And I don’t think that in our country there is no place. There is a problem with the distance, but you can put it in Guiana, for example, or somewhere else, where it is friendlier. Moreover, there is talk that they will also assemble a rocket (Zenit) in the states from our and Ukrainian units, until Soyuz-5 is made. So - are there not a lot of happiness for them from all this ...

[Nikolai Grek]

Quote: maxim947

so that it is completely Russian and the platform with the ships is deployed with us.

it all started a long time ago !!!

The international consortium Sea Launch Company (SLC) was established in 1995. It includes the American company Boeing Commercial Space Company (a subsidiary of the Boeing Aerospace Corporation), which provides general management and financing (40% of the capital), the Russian Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (25%), and the Ukrainian Design Bureau Yuzhnoye (5 %) and Yuzhmash Production Association (10%), as well as the Norwegian shipbuilding company Aker Kværner (20%). The headquarters of the consortium is located in the California city of Long Beach. The contractor involved the Russian Transport Engineering Bureau and Central Design Bureau Rubin.

In September 2016, it became known that the S7 Group's subsidiary, C7 Space Transport Systems, would become a buyer and operator of the Sea Launch international project.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Морской_старт

[MstislavHrabr]

It looks like a legal office for pumping brains and technologies from Russia with the help of the leadership of the Energia rocket and space corporation ...
The main thing in the project is not profit (it will not be), but the convenience in transferring technical documentation for the Boeing aerospace corporation ...

[Mih1974]

I agree - it’s completely suitable, considering that they pay "paper" for real "brains". It’s a good idea - your property but the control of the FSB and FSK . That is, "investors" will have the right to "sit in the United States" and decide how many engines to make, but not naked . And of course, a ban on the export of information is under the supervision of the Federal Grid Company.

[NOMADE]

As far as I remember, the platform was bought from us last year

[Awaz]

Cho annoying that? This platform was originally Russian, well, joint .. Then many times it was resold and it settled in the end in the port of Long Beach, when everyone abandoned it. The authorities would support Filev’s impulse (if I’m not mistaken with the name of the owner) As Americans would like to use the Mask, too, transfer part of the technology for free. Khrunichev will fall apart anyway. And he would give people this job ... Everything would be to the good

[Terenin]

One feels not without the intervention of DM. Rogozin, the S7 Space stirred.

[Fungus]

The news is just great. With 7 promising private company.

[Irokez]

Give Russian Ilona Mask. Although who knows, maybe Korolev will succeed in a new one.

[Nikolai Grek]

Quote: Irokez

Give Russian Ilona Mask. Although who knows, maybe Korolev will succeed in a new one.

we don’t need an analog mask ... it's still a fraudster and another American bubble !!

[Vadim237]

Scammers don’t have missiles - this is too complicated an undertaking.

[YarSer88]

My prayers have been answered, at least one positive news about space. The main thing is not to die out as usual.

[abc_alex]

I'm afraid for S-7 this engine goes only to Soyuz-2.1. A Sea Launch is very sharpened for the Zenith. If with the purchase of Ukrainian missiles some kind of economics of the project is overlooked, then when using a new missile everything is much more complicated.

[Const]

S7 who at all? Private trader! How many of these private traders from Russia drove to LANDON? The next privatization of promising state assets, all according to Chubais / Gaidar. What's happening?

[Sarmat Sanych]

Well, Filev (owner of S7) does not deal with all sorts of London and other garbage, and does not depend on the budget in any way, he has been doing the real thing for more than 20 years. I think it will work out sensibly.

[Sands Careers General]

Well, well, with God!

[ComDiv]

but do not think that this is a common reason to get documentation on engines. And then successfully attach it to the one who pays the most.

[Chicha squad]

Who needs it? Dvigun is 60 years old.

[ComDiv]

RD-170 is 48 years old. And his half RD-180 is already under thirty. Nevertheless, the United States buys it from us. And they fly.

[Radical]

Quote: maxim947

Where is your avalanche, I don’t know. And I don’t think that in our country there is no place. There is a problem with the distance, but you can put it in Guiana, for example, or somewhere else, where it is friendlier. Moreover, there is talk that they will also assemble a rocket (Zenit) in the states from our and Ukrainian units, until Soyuz-5 is made. So - are there not a lot of happiness for them from all this ...

This "storyteller" is not necessary to listen! Everything will be as it is now accepted in Russia - they will “squeeze out” promising developments from the state, they will produce and “drive” them to the west, money will go to offshore! That's the trick! Moreover, this is a practice gained in recent years! You look at the amount they are ready to lay out on this "gesheft" - laughter!

[Vadim237]

1,8 billion rubles is an acceptable amount for a plant that will employ 100-150 people.

[TsUS-Air Force]

I didn’t understand, but aren't rockets being made in Samara now? and what else is all the name of the companies in English? But once Samara was a closed city! his trains passed without stopping, either at night or along the paths closed on the sides

[Siberian 63]

these prokhendeys will not sell anything, for a hill 100%. Generally insolent in the open ..............

[Vadim237]

They won’t sell anything for the hill, as they have already flown over the hill of NK 33.

[Fox]

so that’s why on NK again the accounts in Moscow were frozen. it is so persuaded by technology to transfer.

[Radical]

Quote: Fox

so that’s why on NK again the accounts in Moscow were frozen. it is so persuaded by technology to transfer.

What do you think ...?

[Manul]

Something I don’t believe anything ..

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: Manul

Something I don’t believe anything ..

Maybe age?