Posted on 07/26/2022 7:16:41 AM PDT by Salman
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Russia and the United States have worked side by side on the ISS, which has been in orbit since 1998.
"Of course, we will fulfil all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave this station after 2024 has been made," Yury Borisov, who was appointed Roscosmos chief in mid-July, told Putin.
"I think that by this time we will start putting together a Russian orbital station," Borisov added, calling it the space programme's main "priority".
"Good," Putin replied in comments released by the Kremlin.
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The Nazis have moved on. They now run the WEF and the world’s economy. The goal is to crash it, in order to rebuild as thier fascist utopia. We keep calling it communist, but the WEF have no interest in owning industry, they just want to control it. That is fascism.
I do remember the three launches in quick succession recently. Two days sounds right.
SpaceX will drastically open up space access when the Starship launch system becomes operational.
The cost to orbit will be orders of magnitude less than today.
When President Trump went to Florida for the first (?) Launch of the SpaceX, he gave the best speech of his entire presidency. That pro-America, pro- free enterprise speech should be heard by all Americans but of course it was suppressed by the media.
Blue Origin is supposed to be building the BE-4. It’s been in development since 2011. Originally intended for for the Blue Origin launch vehicle New Glenn it was sold to ULA for use on the Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle meant to replace the Atlas V which uses the RD-180.
The BE-4 was supposed to be ready in 2017. It’s 2022 and the first engines are just starting tests never mind being flight qualified. Then it has to be qualified for the higher standard of crewed flight. Wanna bet they run out of the supply of Atlas V before they can launch the Vulcan Centaur?
One difference could be
Blue Origin = Bezos (software guy)
SpaceX = Musk (hardware guy)
Meanwhile, the RD-181 having been used in the Antares by Northrop Grumman has no replacement.
I guess you missed the self-evident sarcasm in my post. It was always a mistake to think we could collaborate with the Russia on the ISS or anything else (aside: like our petroleum supply)(aside: include the mistake of any collaboration with China).
We should have never willingly given up our domestic launch capability. And now some in the launch business are going to pay the price i.e. the sclerotic traditional aerospace companies.
"They" have already run out of Atlas V ... they're all accounted for. Built and sold. That comsat you're building ( ;'} ) will have to launch on something else.
Yes ... I'm not surprised that Musk's company is putting paying customers in orbit, while Bezos's company is giving celebrities a 15 minute joyride.
We should have never willingly given up our domestic launch capability.
One of King 0bama's many sins ...
some in the launch business are going to pay the price
And SpaceX is reaping the rewards of getting it right. There have been as of today 89 orbital launches this year. 33 of them were Falcons. Russia has managed 10, and China has managed 25. In addition to Falcon, we (USA) have put up 13 other successful launches, of which only 5 were "traditional" aerospace companies.
Despite government mideeds, we (USA) still have the busiest launch schedule in the world, with China as a distant second.
Four entities have put people into orbit, USSR/Russia, USA, China, and SpaceX.
I believe SpaceX has 33 launches so far this year.
Thank you for the report. And I am honored to be receiving a comment from one of the primordial 1998 FR members. One of the original old-timers.
Number one on the list: CURED CANCER!
I think some US company has signed on to take over the ISS and develop space tourism business
Boeing disclosed a charge of $93 million in the second quarter from its Starliner astronaut capsule program, bringing the program’s overrun costs to nearly $700 million.
The aerospace giant said the latest charge was “primarily driven by launch manifest updates and additional costs associated with OFT-2,” or Orbital Flight Test 2. The second uncrewed flight of Starliner successfully completed a six-day long mission in May, reaching a critical test objective – docking with the International Space Station – as Boeing prepares for the capsule to carry astronauts.
Boeing’s latest Starliner-related charge means the company has absorbed $688 million in costs from delays and additional work on the capsule to date.
Looks like Boeing can't get anything right.
Meanwhile, SpaceX put up a bunch of Starlink satellites this week. Next week they’re launching a robotic Moon mission for South Korea. The week after, another Starlink launch.
And the beat goes on.
I’m honored to be honored by you...
Gee, I guess I have been on FR for a while. I lurked for a while before I joined for several years. I owe Jim and crew big time...
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