Do you need an orbit, do you need an orbit?
That's about you, who succeed, we'll talk.
Do you need an orbit, do you need an orbit.
No, it is clear that you need an orbit. There you will be dissecting on your sofas and expressing your only and infallible opinion from cosmic heights. Shouting "Urya" to the whole world (in the long term to the entire Solar System) and approving another promise of Rogozin about landing on Titan.
Apple trees on Mars will already be blooming by then, and the Moon will look like cheese, because from it caravans with rare-moon minerals will follow.
Everything, of course, will be exclusively in the hands of Roscosmos and Rogozin, which by that time will have brought order everywhere and sued all the media that criticize it.
But let's try at least once in the head not to eat, but to think? Well, in terms of the experiment? Weak? Yes, I know that weakly ...
Well, we will not expose patriotic brains to such violence, but with clever people we will think about this.
Year 2024 th ... Rubicon.
No, Putin’s next election victory has nothing to do with it, as they say, this is an axiom ... I'm about a friend. About the possible delimitation of Russia and the rest of the world in space.
As I wrote in the previous article, this can happen. And our partners will say - we will now work here ourselves, you have not hung here.
Very unpleasant moment. Already today, Russian cosmonauts conduct 95% of their scientific research in foreign laboratory units. "Columbus", "Kibo", "Destiny" - all this is not our economy, as it were.
I will reveal a “terrible” such secret: that is why the number of Russian astronauts has been reduced from three to two people. They, poor fellows, have nowhere to work there. All places in the European, Japanese and American modules are occupied! Europeans, Japanese and Americans.
And just because the air squish ... It will be expensive, to be honest.
And such a turn from the gate (more precisely, from scientific modules) can be.
It is clear that now our patriotic patriots are screaming. Say, we are right now undock and our ka-ak bungle! The whole world will shudder and become envious.
Well, let's throw our heads and look into the cosmic distance, where the common ISS is still cutting circles.
There is such a “Russian” segment in the ISS. I'll arrange a virtual tour for him now.
No.0. "Dawn". The first module from which the ISS started in general in 1998.
20 has been working there for years. Two solar batteries, six rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries for energy storage, 24 medium and 12 small engines for adjusting the spatial position, two large engines for orbital maneuvers. 16 tanks mounted outside the module can contain up to 6 tons of fuel. Three connecting nodes.
But all this, although it bears a Russian name, and it seems to be considered the Russian segment ... is the property of NASA. For it was built (albeit firmly) on American money. And they will not give it to us. Therefore, the number zero. For not ours.
No.1. The service module "Star", it is just a residential module.
Includes all systems required for operation as an autonomous habitable spacecraft and laboratory. It allows the crew of three astronauts to be in space, for which there is a life support system and an electrical power plant on board, personal rest cabins, medical equipment, exercise equipment for exercise, a kitchen, a table for eating, and personal hygiene. In the service module there is a central station control station with monitoring equipment.
In general, the “Star” was supposed to become the basis for the new Russian station after “Peace”, but it was not lucky.
No.2. "Pier".
Docking module. For the reception of ships and the exit-entrance of astronauts into open space. A very useful thing in the household.
No.3. “Search”, which is also a small research module (MIM-2).
In general, this is all the same docking module, with the same functions as the "Pierce", only newer. And yes, this is a very small research module. Because there you can install a certain amount of scientific equipment and try to investigate something.
How rich is science there - judge by the photo.
No.4. Breaking Dawn, a small research module (MIM-1).
Again, a docking station with a water treatment and regeneration unit added. As far as he research, I will not judge. Everything in the photo.
Everything seems to be on this ... One residential module and three docking modules. Which can be used as warehouses, there is where to process the urine into the water, you can take a transport ship or with a crew, go into outer space and, importantly, go back.
Where is science? Actually, for what the whole garden is orbital and is being built? By the way, you should pay attention to how MIM 1 and 2 and the “Star” are rich in portholes for visual observations or photographing ...
A "Science" on earth ...
Then we have a very funny detective begins.
Patriotic comrades will start poking Roscosmos plans in my face. We will now launch it, dock it, and begin to live, be happy and make good! Let's start our studies, experiments and everything else. And everyone else will be jealous.
Good. Let's say. Suppose it is possible in principle.
But what are the nuances begin ...
All the hopes and promises of our kosmochninnikov boil down to the fact that "we will launch the module" Science "and ..." So what?
And nothing.
"Science" can not break away from Earth. Alas. But let's be thoughtful and piecemeal. So, "Science" is created from 1995 year and can not be created.
In the 2013 year, the module "Science" somehow assembled began to be prepared for launch, but ... The module does not pass the maturity test. Metal shavings were found in the fuel lines.
The module in 2015 was returned back to the Center. Khrunichev, the pipelines were replaced, but in the spring 2017 contamination was found already in the tanks. The tanks were first cleaned, then cut, which is why they ceased to be airtight, that is, they finally destroyed quite complex structures.
In January, Rogozin 2019 announced that the launch was already postponed to 2020 for the year, and the epic with Science is still going on.
After all, tanks are not just gasoline tanks that we are used to, for example, but complex units with a partition in the form of a bellows (accordion) between the fuel component and the pressurized gas.
The bellows, converging and diverging like accordion furs, allows the diaphragm to move inside the tank, which makes it possible to refuel it repeatedly from transport ships already in orbit.
The tanks were made in 80's, nothing was left of the equipment on which they were made, people either have long lived their huge pension, or have already left this world.
What is the fuss about? And without the tanks, the flight would not work. It is necessary to maneuver, it is necessary to adjust the orbit and so on. Wash tanks will not work - the pollution will be removed only in parts. It is possible to replace it, but this means that it will be necessary to disassemble the entire module.
By the way, “Dawn” had the same problems when launching. Because the "Dawn" flew with a set of shortened tanks, they were good at hand. But “Zare” didn’t have to maneuver much, it was caught and corrected with its “Shuttle” hand.
There were a number of attempts to attach tanks of another model, from another ship. Attempts ended in nothing, now it was decided to order in the Lavochkin Scientific-Production Association new tanks and somehow stuff them into the module.
Meanwhile, the heat gives way to all seals, connections, diaphragm. Indeed, since the beginning of the construction of "Science" more than 20 years have passed ...
In general, many smart people come to the conclusion that the "scientific long-term project" led to a stalemate: it is very necessary to run, but absolutely impossible. Since there is no guarantee of safety for the crew.
But this is only half the problem. Then everything goes on the chain. We look further at the plans of "Roskosmos".
1. "The science". Should have flown in 2019, stated in 2020, but there are problems. "Science" was supposed to replace the "Pier", which according to plans will go to junk.
2. "Pier". Universal docking module. On 6 (six) docking nodes. The wharf was ready back in the 2014 year and is still lying in the Energia warehouses, because it has to dock with the Science. And if the latter remains on earth, then the “Jetty” in the cosmos has nothing to do.
Such is the chain: "Star" - "Science" (instead of "Pierce") - "Pier".
Yes, instead of "Science" you can think up, quickly assemble and dock to the "Star" a kind of adapter that allows docking the "Wharf" immediately to the "Star".
The problem is that in this case it will not be possible to use four of the six gateways, side because they will be too close to the station.
The result of this luxurious trishkin caftan is a situation where instead of a module capable of receiving the ship's 4 and one more module (discussed below), we get a luxurious stopper with one docking station.
Stormy applause and shouts of "Hurray!"
3. Scientific and energy module. It is not even worth talking about it yet, since only the body is ready for it. And the future is more than misty, for it should be docked on one of the nodes of the Wharf, which ... I see. We look above, we understand that the space "Lego" has not yet formed.
But there is another consideration about the whole carousel. Personal.
"Science" does not take off. Here, on earth, the launch of this unfortunate module has dozens of opponents. And these are not some hypothetical "enemies of the people", they are specific people who will have to put quite specific signatures on documents indicating that the module is ready for work.
In short, it is those who will be appointed extreme (and we have learned to do it luxuriously at Rogozin) in the event of a fiasco.
A fiasco in the form of a non-working module may well occur. A leaky module in orbit is pretty. Non-working engines (and there are as many of them on the Science as on the Star, because the base is one - FGB) is also not bad.
Therefore, any normal person (and there are even such state-owned corporations), not wanting an extraordinary adventure for his life, will begin to drag out this solemn and sad moment with all his strength - the launch of "Science" into space. For nothing good from this show should not be expected.
Thank God, no one is in a hurry. Did you notice the time gaps? No (naturally)? I'll repeat.
2013 year. The assembled module "Science" failed acceptance testing.
2015 year. The module was returned back to the Center. Khrunichev, pipelines replaced.
2017 year. It did not help, the dirt was found already in the tanks.
2019 year. The tanks were cut, cleaned, brewed, ditched completely.
Evaluated the speed of response to the problem? And what is the dynamics of work? We continue?
2021 year. NPO Lavochkina manufactures a new set of tanks.
2023 year. The Khrunichev Center, distracting from the construction of a new wonder-building, inserts tanks into place.
2025 year. "Science" is ready to start.
Well, in the 2026 year, if nothing happens, just the module can be run. One problem, how much resource will remain in the "Stars"? And will he stay at all? 26 years in space is not a joke ...
Yes, there’s no need to talk about the reputation of Roscosmos, our business is internal, so to speak, but ... I repeat the question: where is science? Where is the opportunity for independent work?
A dummy in orbit with the possibility of three people living in it is a very dubious waste of billions, isn't it? Not? Okay…
Sad story "Science" parades a very difficult problem. It turns out that we really degraded to the level of the 60s of the last century, and today we simply cannot even repeat what was created by 40 years ago.
And "Science" may well replenish the ranks of "gone to nowhere" of our "Energy" and the American "Saturn", for example.
But our competing partners are moving ahead. This is a fact, hell, this is a very unpleasant fact. And we have a solid drool in the monitor and the cries of "we can all!"
Oh yeah. We can definitely. Putin himself said that we really need a national orbital station.
And there is such a project. NOS Russia. And forgive, what this nose will consist of?
Opanki, and the faces of all the familiar ...
All the same "Science", "Berth", NEM. Here they are, in full force. Well, plus you can still add the junk that dangles when the ISS.
The luxurious nose we have in 2024 will be! Everyone is jealous!
Heart: "Star" (25 years) and "Science" (28 years)! The latest developments that have no analogues in the world! Hooray!!! # we thought and all that.
Everything else: Pierce (23 of the Year), Search (15 Years), Breaking Dawn (14 Years), Jetty (10 Years).
You know, something like the situation with aircraft carriers. An aircraft carrier is an instrument of pressure and pressure among Americans. weapon, all others - the subject of prestige. Type to have an aircraft carrier - cool to horror.
This is the same “cool”, like the ancient, smoking, not capable of fighting “Admiral Kuznetsov” for anything, we may have in orbit.
Yes, collected in landfills, but - his own. Originally Russian. Maybe even Americans “Zarya” on the cheap will give way, to her in 2024-m all the 26 years will be, so the old woman will work ...
Beauty, right?
But this is all only if, as I said, “Science” and everything connected with it will fly.
It is unpleasant, gentlemen, hurray-patriots? Here too. We have degraded. To the level of space cabs and sortirostroiteley. Alas, this is a fact.
Moreover, the positions of cab drivers run away from under us, which our Roskosmos has recently indulged in directly.
Well, at least the Americans have not mastered space toilets. There is something to earn. 19 million for one kosmounitaz. Strength!
And here you have the prospect of a “national program” - to hang out in space at the station, assembled from ancient modules, which it is not clear how long they will work. New? Dismiss, let Rogozin master the launch of "Science", then we'll see.
In the meantime, I’m looking at what’s on the ISS, what they will stay with and what they will be renting out, so forgive me, there “Kibo”, “Columbus” and “Destiny” are the three more. There is where to turn around in terms of work, even without us. Moreover, without us. Without us, there you can and military secrets to do in full.
Or pass, for example, as planned, the Mask, which, being a stupid man, realized that it is more profitable to assemble an interplanetary ship in orbit, the benefit of cranes and manipulators there is now enough. And there will be workers.
The whole question is that we remain at the old trough, from which it is unlikely that something valuable can be squeezed out. Maintain the illusion of a cool space power? Well, yes ... No more than that.
Today’s day clearly makes it clear that Roskosmos, in the form in which it exists (the best term for characterizing the moment), is not suitable for anything other than grinding trillions of rubles under the bravura statements of Mr. Rogozin.
There will be no moon station. There are no prerequisites for its creation.
Sorry, we are just unable to make a module for a near-earth station, and here there is a fairy tale moon.
There will be no reusable and interplanetary "Federation", because suddenly such things do not fall from the ceiling. And we still use the Queen's "Unions", changing the computers to more modern ones. Something is not taken from nothing, and I support those who say that the "Federation" is a myth, but in fact it is a cut.
If you do not change the situation radically, then we, of course, will be able to show something there, such as the launch of the satellites Angola, Zimbabwe, Kenya ... In short, those who have no money. On credit, naturally. But no more than that.
And what should be done to make “more than that”?
In fact, here already, in theory, everyone who reads must turn on his brain and come up with something for himself. Such is the essence of the existence of the media, not only to provide ready-made information, but also to encourage one to think. But since this is by no means all of us today, I will voice a few things.
The main thing is that Mr. Putin must nevertheless understand that his tactics of appointing loyal and loyal people to the posts is flawed. Especially with respect to Roscosmos. Rogozin, a journalist, knows nothing about these matters. And the manager is absolutely disgusting.
The best evidence is his dancing with the "East". No matter how much Rogozin shook his fists, no matter how many loud statements he made, in fact we have disgustingly conducted work on the construction of a cosmodrome, looted money and workers' strikes, as confirmation of all the pornography that was going on there.
The country clearly exceeded the critical level of incompetence in responsible posts. They work well only in the sphere of duping the population, but at least somewhere in the world everything is in order. Show your finger - and the "Urya-I-I" rushes over the expanses of Russia, with or without it.
Specifically, Roskosmos should be led by people who understand this. Not populist journalists, like Rogozin, not managers of communications, as already (thank God) the former head of the BAKA, sent from Rostelecom.
Specialists.
Then there is a chance. Small, since the degradation is very noticeable, but there is.
No - and not necessary. Then there are enough loud and beautiful statements that will be supported by approving shouts from the orbit from generalissimos on cosmodivans. In words, we will be the first, the best, all capable. The main thing is not to rock the boat patriotically.
In fact, we will observe the orbital construction of the Chinese, the achievements of Mask and Bezos, Indians, Jews ...
From the board of "its own" station, which will eventually turn into a pile of volatile scrap metal, discussed by one technician. Well, yes, as in the film. The tale is still, but ...
There is some such hint in it.
But in principle, the way they ruin our space industry, crossing out one after the other Soviet achievements, doesn’t bother me much, to be honest. This is the scrap that can not be overwhelmed with a whip. If Putin ordered Rogozin to ruin everything, then so be it.
And then, the achievements that will still be proud for some time are, of course, good. But they stayed there, in the country that no longer exists.
And do not talk here about continuity. I do not see her in space, to be honest. I see the old "Unions", "Progress", "Zenith", which simply work as cab drivers. I somehow do not observe the achievements of Russia.
But most depressing is the fact that every day there are fewer and fewer people who are able to soberly evaluate it. And more and more "patriots" who can only ride and shout loudly on a given topic.
Well, this is also a path of development, I will not argue.
So we go to the interplanetary "Federation", the near-Earth station, the near-moon station, the lunar observatory, the Martian station and other fairy tales with which we have been so generously patching lately.
What if we come?
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