Russia will spend $24 billion to develop a super-heavy carrier rocket is intended to deliver over 70 tonnes of cargo into low near-Earth orbit. This would be a bit over the payload capacity of the SpaceX Heavy.
The construction of infrastructure for the new carrier rocket is expected to begin at the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian Far East in 2026.
It was previously reported that the plan was for the heavy rocket to be flying in 2028.
This is an expensive program to create a rocket that does not reusability in the design. It will be cheaper than the US Space Launch System.
SpaceX BFR and the SpaceX Heavy will be better than this new Russian Rocket.
Basic elements and technologies of the Soyuz-5 medium-class rocket currently under development will be used to create the super-heavy launch vehicle.
According to Roscosmos’s estimates, the creation of the super-heavy carrier rocket and the construction of the corresponding infrastructure will cost 1.5 trillion rubles ($24 billion).
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Maybe SpaceX can sell seats to the Russians on their Falcons or BFR? At $80,000,000 a seat Musk could make a fortune, and the Russians could save a fortune.
Maybe SpaceX can sell seats to the Russians on their Falcons or BFR?At $80000000 a seat Musk could make a fortune and the Russianscould save a fortune.
And thank goodness the USA won’t be dependent on it.
And thank goodness the USA won’t be dependent on it.
The USA’s SLS is the same though.
The USA’s SLS is the same though.
Russia”? Technosocialists never learn.
Russia””? Technosocialists never learn.”””
But powerpoint space planes have the best of both worlds. Add some powerpoint propellentless drive and cold fusion and you are completely set.
But powerpoint space planes have the best of both worlds. Add some powerpoint propellentless drive and cold fusion and you are completely set.
Oh that design hurts in so many ways. Side and core boosters for the small and medium variant are not common. I can understand wanting to have a hydrogen upper stage but there is plenty of weirdness there too. Did they learn nothing from the Angara debacle, or are they just gluttons for punishment now?
Oh that design hurts in so many ways. Side and core boosters for the small and medium variant are not common. I can understand wanting to have a hydrogen upper stage but there is plenty of weirdness there too. Did they learn nothing from the Angara debacle or are they just gluttons for punishment now?
Russia would have to spend more money on this rocket than Bezos on his.. And Russia doesn’t have more free money than Bezos. Bezos doesn’t have to pay Russian pensions and Putin’s private security army. Bezos can spend a billion per year forever and never run out of money… It’s a hobby.
Russia would have to spend more money on this rocket than Bezos on his.. And Russia doesn’t have more free money than Bezos. Bezos doesn’t have to pay Russian pensions and Putin’s private security army. Bezos can spend a billion per year forever and never run out of money… It’s a hobby.
Ok in fairness power point space planes beat power point rockets.
Ok in fairness power point space planes beat power point rockets.
…or a gigantic shot of vodka!
…or a gigantic shot of vodka!
Maybe SpaceX can sell seats to the Russians on their Falcons or BFR?
At $80,000,000 a seat Musk could make a fortune, and the Russians
could save a fortune.
And thank goodness the USA won’t be dependent on it.
The USA’s SLS is the same though.
“Russia”? Technosocialists never learn.
But powerpoint space planes have the best of both worlds. Add some powerpoint propellentless drive and cold fusion and you are completely set.
Oh that design hurts in so many ways. Side and core boosters for the small and medium variant are not common. I can understand wanting to have a hydrogen upper stage but there is plenty of weirdness there too. Did they learn nothing from the Angara debacle, or are they just gluttons for punishment now?
Russia would have to spend more money on this rocket than Bezos on his.. And Russia doesn’t have more free money than Bezos. Bezos doesn’t have to pay Russian pensions and Putin’s private security army. Bezos can spend a billion per year forever and never run out of money… It’s a hobby.
Ok in fairness power point space planes beat power point rockets.
…or a gigantic shot of vodka!
I take any report of large expenditures of money by Russia with a gigantic grain of salt.
What’s a little stock fraud by Roscosmos when we let Musk do it here in the US, too?
Just propaganda: They don’t want to admit to their own people that they lost the space race, and decisively so, after so long as a real player.
Which they also don’t have.
This is FAKE NEWS.
Aint no rockets like power point rockets.
No re-usability? It is a non starter for anything other than domestic launches.
This rocket is less likely to see outer space than the SLS, which is a million to one shot.
This is a propaganda rocket. Notice, they aren’t going to start until 2026.
Why? At 24 billion USD, the rocket would have to fly 240 times to just break even on development assuming a per launch cost of 150 million (or possibly more). In a day and age of SpaceX’s FH and Falcon 9, there is no point. The only reason they would need this is to launch very heavy government (defense?) payloads.
This seems like a waste of money if they don’t have a real need to launch military payloads of that weight. If they have commercial launch needs not paying one of the reusable providers and doing it themselves would be nuts.