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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 25, 2011 Russia will be ready to launch a light version of a Soyuz carrier rocket by 2012, commander of the Russian Space Forces Oleg Ostapenko said on Thursday. The Soyuz 2-1V launch vehicle, also known as Soyuz 1, is a two-stage medium class carrier rocket developed by the Progress design bureau. "We will be ready to carry out this launch at the end of 2011 or in the first quarter of 2012," Ostapenko said, adding that the rocket was ready for assembly at a Progress plant in Samara, the Volga Region. The new rocket is a modernized version of a Soyuz-2.1B, with the booster rockets removed, and the first stage equipped with a legendary NK-33 rocket engine, which was developed in the 1970s to carry Soviet cosmonauts to the moon onboard a giant N1 rocket. The second stage is the same as the Soyuz-2.1B. The rocket is capable of putting a payload of up to 2.85 tons (6,300 lb) to an orbit at an altitude of 200 kilometers. Launches could be carried out from upgraded launch pads at the Plesetsk Space Center in northwestern Russia and the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
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Weak Russian component downed Indian rocket Says Ex-ISRO chiefChennai, India (IANS) Apr 25, 2011 The destruction of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) in mid air in 2010 was due to an inherent weakness in a component in the Russian supplied cryogenic engine. "We did several simulation tests to find out why the connectors - the wires that carry command signals from the onboard computers at the top to the rocket's engines down below - snapped," former ISRO chief Madh ... read more |
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