In Russia, there will be a heavyweight rocket to be sent to the moon
The Federal Space Agency managed to coordinate with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and send to the Russian government a concept for the development of spacecraft extraction devices, up to 2030. According to a source in the space department, the main task, which is indicated in the document, is the creation of a launch vehicle capable of launching into a near-earth orbit, whose height is two hundred kilometers, a payload of up to seventy tons. The creation of such a rocket is necessary for the implementation of the plans already voiced earlier, according to which a flight of the Russian manned spacecraft to the Moon should take place by 2028. In addition, it is planned to use this rocket for other purposes, in particular, in order to deliver unmanned spacecraft to asteroids, as well as to other celestial bodies.
The carrier, bringing into the reference orbit up to seventy tons, will be the most powerful rocket in the world, if we talk about the machines that are in operation and are being created to date. Thus, the heavy version of the Falcon rocket, which is being built by the American corporation SpaceX, will be able to put up to fifty-three tons into low orbit. The powerful carrier Arian 5, owned by the European Space Agency, is capable of delivering up to twenty one tons, which is one ton less than what Proton-M can produce in Russia. The most powerful Chinese version of the Chang Zheng family of rockets will be able to deliver up to twenty-five tons.
The Russian super heavyweight rocket will be inferior only to the carriers created in the last century: the Soviet Energia rocket, which took out up to one hundred and five tons, and the American Saturn 5 rocket, built by Werner von Braun, who had a record figure of 140 tons.
The development of the super heavyweight rocket is planned for 2021-2025 years, the creation of the launch complex for it will take place at the Vostochny cosmodrome, which is currently under construction in the Amur region.
However, the creation of such a rocket is only half the battle. The main task set today in Roscosmos is the creation of a base on the Earth satellite. In this regard, difficulties begin to appear. Earlier there were reports that the landing of Russian astronauts on the lunar surface is planned by officials before the 2030 year. For scientists, this option is almost utopian.
According to the scientific director of the Institute of Scientific Policy, Ivan Moiseev, this task can be accomplished after 2040, since earlier the necessary resources for this would not be enough. If the Russian leadership will seek to speed up the solution of this issue, it will come out as the Americans: flew and flew. In order to stay there, you need to look over the 2030 year and build a base on the moon.
The “missile” concept, which was sent to the Russian government, was developed by Roscosmos on the instructions of the Security Council. All this was accompanied by rather scandalous circumstances. So, officials suddenly found out that they were working on two very similar and very expensive projects. In parallel with the creation of the Angara rocket, which has been under way for twenty years, the carrier rocket Rus, which is in fact its counterpart, is being developed.
The creation of two similar missiles is too expensive, in connection with which it was decided to abandon the work on the missile "Rus". When they began to find out the reasons for the occurrence of such a situation, it became clear that in Russia there was no general concept of missiles. After that, Roskosmos was instructed to write it.
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