Posted on October 7, 2011, at 12:19 pm .
The reorganization of the Russian space industry continued on Friday as Roscosmos Head Vladimir Popovkin announced plans to create of a new rocket building holding organization and to replace the management of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center.
Roscosmos Head Vladimir Popovkin announced the plan in remarks before the State Duma, according to Interfax. The report doesn’t say why the move is being made, but it appears to be an attempt by the Russian space agency to tighten control over the industry.
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Posted on July 19, 2011, at 6:32 am .
The Angara rocket family. (Credit: Allocer)
Russia’s long-delayed Angara family of rockets will finally take to the skies above the Plesetsk Cosmodrome beginning in 2013, according to Vladimir Nesterov, general director of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center.
Speaking to reporters at Baikonur on Saturday, Nesterov also said that the third flight of South Korea’s KSLV-1 rocket, which uses the Angara first stage, will take place during the second half of next year.
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Posted on January 1, 2011, at 12:43 pm .
Launch Statistics for 2010
(Via Roscosmos)
Total Launches: 74
Successes: 70
Failures: 4
Launch Breakdown
- Russia — 31 launches (42 percent)
- United States – 15 launches (20.3 percent)
- China – 15 launches (20.3 percent)
- ESA (Arianespace) – 6 launches (8.1 percent)
- India – 3 launches (4 percent)
- Japan — 2 launches (2.7 percent)
- South Korea – 1 launch (1.35 percent)
- Israel – 1 launch (1.35 percent)
Launch Failures
India — 2 (GSLV)
Russia – 1 (Proton)
Korea – 1 (KSLV-1)
Russian Breakdown
Out of 31 Russia’s launches, 15 have been made by the rockets produced by Khrunichev Space Center, including 12 of heavy-lift Proton. That is two times more than for Proton’s rival, Ariane 5.
Proton has also beat another record, making 29 launches within 29 months.
Posted on November 23, 2010, at 5:33 am .
Angara rocket engine test
VIA ROSCOSMOS PAO
NITS RKP, Peresvet, completed firing tests of Universal Rocket Module URM-2 for Angara launcher.
Cold testing of URM-2 with kerosene filling, as well as totally-filled system tests, had been conducted successfully. The firing test, aimed at confirming URM proper operation as a part of Angara’s third stage, took place on Nov. 18 at test bench 102 (TB-102), the largest test bench in Europe.
URM-2 is to be used in the third stage of the rocket. The first and second sessions of the cold firing tests have been completed in June-July.
Angara’s URM-1 bench tests were completed in 2009.
Development of the Angara launcher is the high-priority national objective. Angara‘s customers are Russian Federal Space Agency and the Ministry of Defense. Khrunichev Space Center is the prime contractor in the project.
And in related news….
Russia’s advanced super heavy-lift launcher to use modified propulsion of Energia rocket developed under Energia-Buran project, KBKhA DG Vladimir Rachuk told Interfax-AVN.
He reminded that oxygen-hydrogen engine RD-0120 designed by KBKhA was used in Energia project. Development of the advanced super heavy-lift launcher is to begin in 2018.
Posted on September 2, 2010, at 12:18 pm .
The Korea Times has a story about the stalemate between KARI and Russia’s Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center over a possible third launch of the KSLV-1 (Naro-1) rocket, which has failed in its only two launch attempts.
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Posted on November 29, 2009, at 3:36 pm .
Russia completes engine tests for Angara rocket
RIA Novosti
Russia has successfully completed bench trials of the first stage of the new Angara carrier rocket, Russia’s Khrunichev Space and Research Center said on Friday.
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Posted on November 18, 2009, at 1:00 pm .
Russia could delay maiden launch of Angara rocket
RIA Novosti
The maiden launch of Russia’s new Angara carrier rocket could be postponed for at least one year due to shortage of funds from the Defense Ministry, the top Russian space official said Wednesday.
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Posted on October 4, 2009, at 5:03 pm .
On 1 October another test firing of the Universal Rocket Module (URM)-1 for Russia’s Angara family of launch vehicles – currently under development – took place at the Rocket & Space Industry Research & Testing Center near Moscow.
The URM-1 test article was fired at a specially built test stand, the largest in Europe, to verify the engine performance at its maximum power level. The test, which lasted 203.4 seconds, was the second in a series of firing tests planned for the URM-1.
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Posted on August 7, 2009, at 10:10 am .
KHRUNICHEV SPACE CENTER PRESS RELEASE
August 5, 2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accepted the Government’s offer to transfer 100 percent of the federally–owned shares of the Voronezh–based open joint stock company “Konstruktorskoe Buro Khimavtomatiky†(OSC KBKhA) to the state-run research and production Khrunichev Space Center (KhSC).
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Posted on August 3, 2009, at 2:30 pm .
Angara rocket engine test
KHRUNICHEV PRESS RELEASE
On 30 July 2009 the Universal Rocket Module URM-1 for the prospective Angara family of launch vehicles was successfully fire-tested at the Rocket & Space Industry Research & Testing Center near Moscow.
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