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Russia to Build New Spacecraft by 2020

Posted by Zonk on from the shouldn't-we-have-ftl-by-2020 dept.

Tech.Luver passed us the word that Russia is now working on a new generation of spacecraft, presumably to help fuel its renewed space exploration ambitions. The Space-based industry is still one of the few areas in which Russia is intentionally competitive, and they intend to exploit that in the coming years. Even still, the new technologies are not expected to see use until 2020. ""A tender to design a new booster and spaceship has been announced," Itar-Tass news agency quoted Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov as saying ... Perminov did not give further details of the tender, but said TsSKB-Progress from the Volga city of Samara is likely to bid with its Soyuz-3 design of spacecraft, as well as Moscow's Khrunichev centre with Angara 3P and Angara 5P. The United States beat the Soviet Union in developing multiple-use Space Shuttle rockets, which form its current fleet of manned spacecraft. Russian space officials have said single-use spacecraft like the Soyuz-TM currently used are cheaper and more practical."

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  1. rockets vs shuttle by timmarhy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yeah wow so the rocket is cheaper... pity it carries a fraction of the shuttles payload

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    1. Re:rockets vs shuttle by timmarhy · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      err, what crack are you smoking? we try get every bit of gear up into space we can with every launch. If we didn't have the abilities of the shuttle ISS would not exist. each mission to the ISS requires taking tons of gear, a rocket wouldn't cut it.

      we don't make little runs back and forth, it's not economical at all even with cheap ass russian rockets.

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    2. Re:rockets vs shuttle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Hey motherfucker, look back at the other motherfucker's troll post. He as such an idiot himself, brought up the shuttle to disparage Russia's vehicles, so he was the one who brought up the shuttle here. Not anyone else. Take your fucking persecution complex somewhere else.

  2. Sh1t. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    parties). At THE Are you a nIGGER