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Russian Sub Launches European Inflatable Space Vehicle

Posted by michael on from the man-overboard dept.

QueueEhGuy writes "From the 'Red Planet' meets 'Hunt for Red October' department: CNN is reporting in this article that the Russian navy launched an inflatable space reentry vehicle atop a standard ICBM. Although this one was evidently only 2.5 ft in diameter, they evidently plan on making larger versions to act as life rafts or carrier pigeons from space back to Earth. Apparently, neither Val Kilmer or Sean Connery were involved in the test."

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  1. IRDT by c.emmertfoster · · Score: 5, Informative

    The technology for this was originally developed by the Russian Mars program: "Inflatable Rentry and Descent Technology" is a nifty replacement for parachutes, IMHO.

    The russians have done this before, though not from a submarine succesfully until now :)

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