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Russia Wants To Build A New Extra-Heavy Launcher
Moscow (UPI) Mar 08, 2005 Russian space engineers are designing a next-generation, super-heavy booster rocket, local media reported Tuesday. Anatoly Kuzin, deputy general director of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, was reported by the ITAR-TASS news agency as saying the center is working on a three-stage rocket capable of lifting 110 tons of payload into low-Earth orbit and providing materials for assembling future space stations there. All manned spaceflights currently are limited to low-Earth orbit, between 210 miles and 840 miles in altitude. The rocket's four-chambered RD-170 engine will be used in the first stage, Kuzin said, followed by the RD-180, a two-thrust-chamber derivative of the RD-170, for the second stage. The third stage will have the one-chamber RD-0122 engine. The center's existing Angara rockets, which are designed for heavy lift and similar to the U.S. Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle, or EELV, can lift a maximum of 27 tons of payload into low-Earth orbit. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Rocket Science News at Space-Travel.Com
Successful First Test For Vega's Zefiro 9 Engine
Paris, France(ESA) Dec 28, 2005Flames, smoke and a deafening noise accompanied the first firing test of Vega's Zefiro 9 third-stage solid rocket motor. A first examination of the data indicates that everything went well at the test carried out yesterday at Salto de Quirra in southeast Sardinia. |
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