Fwd: Russian design bureau to present preliminary design of super heavy lift carrier rocket

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Date: December 13, 2014 11:08:16 AM CST
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Russian design bureau to present preliminary design of super heavy lift carrier rocket

 

December 12, 16:15 UTC+3
Roscosmos has been looking into the possibility for launching super heavy lift carrier rockets from the Vostochny (Eastern) cosmodrome that is currently under construction in the Russian Far East

 

Space Rocket Center Progress

© Pyotr Gridin/TASS

 

SAMARA, December 12. /TASS/. The Samara-based Space Rocket Center Progress (RKTs Progress) will present to Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) on December 15 the preliminary design of the super heavy lift carrier rocket, the press service of the Samara region government said on Friday.

"We are to submit the preliminary design to Roscosmos by December 15. This launch vehicle with the lift capacity of 85 - 90 tons should in the future ensure flights to the Moon and Mars," Director General of RKTs Progress Alexander Kirillin said at a meeting with Samara region's governor Nikolay Merkushkin.

A preliminary design as a rule comprises an explanatory note, relevant drawings, charts, calculations, as well as a draft technical design specification. The approval of the preliminary design by the customer is the requirement for the beginning of the project.

According to former USSR Minister of General Machine Building Oleg Baklanov, the restoration of competence in this sphere will enable Russia to create an orbital space station that would surpass the International Space Station (ISS) in capabilities for more comfortable flight of cosmonauts. Moreover, he said, this would make "shift work possible on other planets, for example, on the Moon, Mars, etc."

© 2014 TASS

 

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