space shuttle Buran OK-KS, in the establishment of RSC Energia in Korolev, Moscow
OAO S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (Russian: Ракетно-космическая корпорация «Энергия» им. С.П. Королёва, Raketno-kosmicheskaya korporatsiya “Energiya” im. S.P. Koroleva), also known as RSC Energia (РКК «Энергия», RKK “Energiya”), is a Russian (previously Soviet) manufacturer of spacecraft and space station components. The company is the prime developer and contractor of the Russian manned spaceflight program; it also owns a majority of Sea Launch. Its name is derived from Sergei Korolev, the first chief of its design bureau, and the Russian word for energy.
Energia is the largest company of the Russian space industry and one of its key players. It is responsible for all operations involving human spaceflight and is the lead developer of the Soyuz and Progress spacecraft, and the lead developer of the Russian end of the International Space Station. In the mid-2000s, the company employed 22,000—30,000 people.
The enterprise has been awarded with 4 Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution and Russian Federation President's Message of Thanks. In addition, 14 cosmonauts employed by the company have been awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation.
RSC Energia - S.P. Korolev Rocket And Space Corporation Energia (РКК Энергия)
The music video dedicated to the 60th anniversary of RSC Energia
The company was founded on 16 May 1946 and has been known successively as:
Special Design Bureau number 1 of R&D Institute number 88 (Russian: ОКБ-1 НИИ-88 or OKB-1 of NII-88)
TsKBEM (Central Design Bureau of Experimental Machine Building)
NPO Energia
S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
It is named after the first chief of its design bureau Sergei Korolev (1946–1966). His successors as chief designers were: Vasiliy Mishin (1966–1974), Valentin Glushko (1974–1989), Yuriy Semenov (1989–2005), Nikolay Sevastyanov (2005–2007). Its President and Chief designer was Vitaly Lopota, through August 1, 2014.
Korolev's design bureau was, beginning with the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 and the first manned spaceflight of Vostok 1, responsible for a major part of the Soviet space program. OKB-1 was among others responsible for the development of the manned Soyuz spacecraft and its Soyuz rocket, the N1 Moon Shot rocket, large parts of the Salyut space station program, the unmanned Progress resupply craft and designed the Energia rocket for the Buran space shuttle program. Since the early beginnings of the Luna programme it designed many space probes, among others of the Venera, Zond and Mars program.
The company continues to dominate a large part of the Russian space program, and a considerable part of the World's space program, with its Soyuz spacecraft having become the only crewed spacecraft conducting regular flights and the exclusive crew transport vehicle for the International Space Station after the Space Shuttle retirement. As of 2013 this will remain unchanged until a crewed US spacecraft from the Commercial Crew Development program will fly to the ISS – with the Chinese Shenzhou program being the only other program in the World with planned semi-regular crewed spaceflights.
MIR Energia Museum
This is the inside of the MIR full size mock-up in the Energia Museum in Korolev City (Near Moscow).
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В.Путин.Встреча с космонавтами.12.04.06.Part 1
Meeting with Cosmonauts and Heads of the Space Sector.Part 1
April 12,2006
The Kremlin,Moscow
Встреча с космонавтами и руководителями космической отрасли.Part 1
12 апреля 2006 года
Москва,Кремль
VLADIMIR PUTIN: Happy Holiday!
ALL: Thank you.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: Today is an anniversary date, 45 years since a momentous event took place in the life of our country and the entire world, an event that marked the beginning of a whole new era in human history. Now is a good time to remember this event, all the more so as two people are currently working in orbit. And I think that we will have the chance today to greet them too and wish them a successful flight, productive work and a safe return home. In five minutes time, I think
DIRECTOR OF ROSAVIAKOSMOS ANATOLY PERMINOV: At 13.01. The previous crew, which included Brazilian test pilot and cosmonaut Marcus Ponte, has just landed and we will also have the chance to speak with them today. We are celebrating this holiday in worthy fashion today. Russia holds a leading position in space activity in the world and its piloted astronautics sector is developing very well.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: What is the outlook for the new reusable space craft?
ANATOLY PERMINOV: A tender is currently underway and the companies involved are battling it out to be the one who will build the space craft. Three main companies are in the running RKK Energia S.P. Korolyov National Corporation, the Khrunichev National Space Centre and Research&Development Corporation Molnia. In June we will hold a closed examination of the bids and will announce the results. But the craft will definitely be built.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: When will it be ready, approximately?
ANATOLY PERMINOV: The plans are for it to be ready to begin operation in 2012-2015.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: That is already quite soon.
ANATOLY PERMINOV: Yes, it is quite soon.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: How do you assess the federal programme in Istra? Are there any problems with its implementation?
ANATOLY PERMINOV: The Government examined the federal programme last year. All areas have been taken into account. Regarding the areas where further work was required you gave instructions, especially as concerns the GLONASS system, and we hope that the approval process with the Economic Development and Trade Ministry and the Finance Ministry will soon take place and we will be able to complete this work.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: Is the industry keeping up with the accelerated pace of putting the necessary quantity into orbit?
ANATOLY PERMINOV: Yes, we have worked it through with the industrial sites of the companies. [Defence Minister] Sergei Borisovich Ivanov personally oversaw this process and visited the companies concerned. In Krasnoyarsk Region all the technical issues were examined as well.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: If everything went according to the existing plan, when would we expect to see the whole system up and working?
ANATOLY PERMINOV: If everything went according to the timetable set out in the old programme, we would have expected to see the system ready for operation only towards the end of 2011-beginning of 2012.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: At the beginning of 2012. And if we manage to carry out the accelerated programme for bringing GLONASS into operation?
ANATOLY PERMINOV: Then the system will be ready for operation throughout the Russian Federation and the CIS countries by the end of 2007
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PAO S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (Russian: Ракетно-космическая корпорация «Энергия» им. С. П. Королёва, romanized: Raketno-kosmicheskaya korporatsiya “Energiya” im. S. P. Koroleva), also known as RSC Energia (РКК «Энергия», RKK “Energiya”), is a Russian manufacturer of ballistic missile, spacecraft and space station components. The company is the prime developer and contractor of the Russian manned spaceflight program; it also owns a majority of Sea Launch. Its name is derived from Sergei Korolev, the first chief of its design bureau, and the Russian word for energy.
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00:01:49 2 Structure
00:02:26 3 History
00:05:59 4 Ongoing projects
00:07:06 5 Future projects
00:09:18 6 Historic projects
00:09:34 6.1 IRBMs and ICBMs
00:10:22 6.2 Launch vehicles
00:11:43 6.3 Research, Observation and Communication Earth Satellites
00:12:53 6.4 Deep Space Exploration Spacecraft
00:17:11 6.5 Cargo spacecraft
00:17:32 6.6 Manned spacecraft
00:18:59 6.7 Earth space stations
00:19:50 6.8 Lunar space stations
00:20:16 7 Committee of Innovative Youth Projects
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PAO S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (Russian: Ракетно-космическая корпорация «Энергия» им. С. П. Королёва, translit. Raketno-kosmicheskaya korporatsiya “Energiya” im. S. P. Koroleva), also known as RSC Energia (РКК «Энергия», RKK “Energiya”), is a Russian manufacturer of ballistic missile, spacecraft and space station components. The company is the prime developer and contractor of the Russian manned spaceflight program; it also owns a majority of Sea Launch. Its name is derived from Sergei Korolev, the first chief of its design bureau, and the Russian word for energy.
Soyuz capsule carrying US tourist Charles Simonyi docks with ISS
(28 Mar 2009)
International Space Station
1. Various, International Space Station (ISS) with Soyuz closing in
3. Mid of Soyuz approaching ISS
4. ISS docking ring
Korolev, Russia
5. Mission Control with wide of Russian Flight Control Room, UPSOUND (English): Docking confirmed at 8:05 am Central time. 4:05 pm Moscow time.
6. Wide of Russian Flight Control Room
International Space Station
7. International Space Station crew opening hatch to Soyuz and welcoming visitors
Korolev, Russia
8. Telemetry display at Russian Flight Control
9. Wide of family members and others at Russian Flight Control centre talking with Soyuz crew through video link
International Space Station
10. Wide of Soyuz crew, ISS crew and space tourist Charles Simonyi
11. SOUNDBITE: (Russian, with English translation following) Gennady Padalka, Cosmonaut
The meeting was very warm.
Korolev, Russia
12. Wide of post-docking news conference
13. SOUNDBITE: (Russian, with English translation overlaid) Vitaly Lopota, chief engineer with Soyuz manufacturer RKK Energia
We had to transfer it to the manual mode. Of course, we'll investigate this case. Everyone was working nominally, so all the ground services were working nominally and all the vehicles were working nominal. So we controlled the situation all the way through.
International Space Station
14. Wide of docked craft
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A Russian cosmonaut was forced to dock a Soyuz capsule carrying US (b) billionaire tourist Charles Simonyi manually at the international space station on Saturday after a sensor monitoring the engines apparently malfunctioned.
Engineers played down the incident, but it renewed recent questions about Russia's otherwise famously reliable spacecraft.
Vladimir Solovyov, flight director for the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said that just a few minutes before the docking time an autopilot signal went off showing that one of Soyuz engines might have failed.
Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka reported that the engines were operating normally and he took manual control of the capsule to keep an emergency computer program from thrusting the engines and sending the craft backing away from the station.
The docking by Padalka appeared otherwise smooth and was slightly ahead of schedule, roughly two days after the capsule blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan's barren steppe.
Applause broke out among space officials and crew relatives gathered at mission control after the hook-up was announced.
Cosmonauts typically receive extensive training in the event that Soyuz's autopilot fails or some other problem pops up.
Vitaly Lopota, chief engineer with Soyuz manufacturer RKK Energia, said in a post-docking news conference said that the incident would be investigated, but that the situation was under control all the way though the docking.
Padalka and US astronaut Michael Barratt are joining the station's current crew, while Simonyi, who is making his second trip as a paying customer to the space station, returns to Earth on April 7 along with cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov and NASA astronaut Michael Fincke.
Some three hours after docking, the crews opened the hatches and Padalka, Barratt and Simonyi floated in to greet the station's occupants - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, NASA astronaut Michael Fincke and cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov - with hugs, smiles and handshakes.
Padalka described the greeting after the two craft docked as very warm.
Simonyi, a Hungarian-born software designer, exchanged greetings with his brother in Hungarian. Padalka's daughter sang a small song while Padalka played with a small stuffed animal that floated about the station's compartment.
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1963: Vostok 6 (USSR)
Vostok 6, the final Vostok flight, was the first human spaceflight mission to carry a woman - cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova - into space. Her photographs of the horizon from space were later used to identify aerosol layers within the atmosphere. The mission, a joint flight with Vostok 5, was originally conceived as being a joint mission with two Vostoks each carrying a female cosmonaut, but this changed as the Vostok programme experienced cutbacks as a precursor to the retooling of the programme into the Voskhod programme.
The landing site was the Pavinskiy Collective Farm west of Bayevo in the Altai Region. After parachuting from the capsule, Tereshkova barely missed the lake because of strong winds.
The re-entry capsule is now on display at the RKK Energia Museum in Korolyov (near Moscow).
150112 Moscow Part 4 RKKEnergia1
Moscow Day 5 - пятый день
Geburtstag von S.P. Koroljow - День рождения С. П. Королев
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Ralf Heckel: Today ist he birthday of Sergey Korolev. We are invited by his daughter. We start in the early morning to an official tour. Our stations are RKK Energia, Korolev City and Moscow/Kremlin Wall. A small VIP delegation is visiting all memorials and places of living and working of S.P. Korolev. We are invited guests since 8 years. Everytime we take other students with us. See how they explain their experiences as report and movie. See the numerous photos. Each is an unique and not reachable for many people.
The students were able to speak with Cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri and Sergey Salotin. Catherine Truheva also talks with the new chief designer of RKK Energia. After this day Yvonne and I are invited to the VIP-dinner in the Korolev-flat. There are 30 persons only. All have key-positions in the Russian spaceflight system.
Das war einer der besten Tage meines Lebens
Nuri Güngör, 12.1.2015
Heute sind wir um 5:30 Uhr morgens aufgestanden, weil wir zit:um 108 Geburtstag von Sergey Koroljow eingeladen waren. Es dauert ganz schön lange, bis sich so ein Team einig und abreisebereit ist. Wir müssen das noch üben. Wir sind zur Metro gelaufen und 2 Stationen gefahren. Als wir gegen 7:30 Uhr ankamen standen wir vor einem Haus in dem die Tochter von Koroljow lebt. Da Stand dann auch ein schicker Mercedes-Bus (VIP Bus). Unser erster Halt nach ca. 45 Minuten war dann RKK Energia, die Firma deren Vorgänger Koroljow als OKB-1 Ende der 40ger Jahre gründete. Die Firma baute damals den Sputnik und heute Raumschiffe für die ISS. Wir haben uns aber nur im Museum der Firma aufgehalten und es war überwältigend alle Möbel aus Koroljow 's Büro zu sehen, dazu seine ersten Aufzeichnungen.
Aber es wurde erst richtig interessant als wir in die große Halle kamen. Dort waren alle echten Satelliten aus der russischen Geschichte ausgestellt. Auch waren dort die ersten Raumschiffe, unter anderem die Kapseln von Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova und Alexander Leonov. Da war auch ein echter Simulator von der russischen Raumstation MIR und noch vieles mehr. Dann versammelten sich viele Leute im Anzug und Krawatte. Es sprachen der Leiter der Firma und der Bürgermeister der Stadt Koroljow. Danach sagte Frau Koroljowa auch ein paar Worte. Schade dass ich kaum etwas verstand. Dann traten Studenten nach vorn. Sie bekamen unter großem Applaus ihre Diplome, je 60.000 Rubel und einen großen Strauß Blumen. Danach durften wir mit auf die Fotos. Katja hat mit dem Chefkonstrukteur der Firma gesprochen und bekam seine Telefonnummer. Wir alle probierten den Sessel einer Sojus aus und schnallten uns fest. Dabei half uns der Kosmonaut Alexander Kaleri (MIR, ISS, 796 Tage im All, 23 Stunden Außenbordeinsätze).
Die Tour ging durch ganz Koroljow Stadt und dann Moskau. Wir saßen dabei immer im Bus von Frau Koroljow. Wir haben 6 Stops gemacht und zwar immer an wichtigen Orten. Da waren: sein Büro, sein Denkmal innerhalb der Firma, sein Denkmal in Koroljow-Stadt, seine alte Wohnung und sein Denkmal in Moskau. Der letzte Stop war am seinem Grab an der Kremlmauer. Die ist streng bewacht. Dort war auch das Grab von Juri Gagarin. Am jeden Stop haben wir Nelken niedergelegt. Dort habe ich sogar noch einen echten Astronauten kennengelernt. Sergey Krikalev (MIR, ISS) war 803 Tage im All und 41 Stunden außerhalb der Raumstationen.
Der Bus hat uns dann am Hotel wieder abgesetzt. Das Fazit vom diesen Tag: Das war einer der besten Tage meines Lebens.
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Zenit 2SB Rocket
On Dec. 16, personnel from RKK Energia, NPO Lavochkin and the Southern division of the TsENKI launch infrastructure organization completed the assembly of the payload section for the Angosat mission at the processing building at Site 31 in Baikonur, RKK Energia announced on December 18. After the integration of the Angosat satellite with its Fregat-SB stage, the stack was rotated into horizontal position and covered with a payload fairing. The resulting upper composite was then transported to the vehicle assembly building at Site 42 for integration with the Zenit 2SB launch vehicle. The upper composite with the Angosat satellite was integrated with the already assembled second and first stages of the Zenit rocket on December 19, 2017. According to RKK Energia, the launch of the Angosat satellite was scheduled for Dec. 26, 2017.
Angara Rocket
During 2015, Russian engineers re-tailored the prospective human space flight program for lighter, cheaper rockets to reflect severe cuts in the nation's space budget in the previous year. According to current plans, the next-generation spacecraft, PTK NP, designed to replace Soyuz, could carry its first crew in 2024, followed by a manned mission into lunar orbit in 2025. The decision of the new leadership at Roskosmos at the beginning of 2015 to put off the development of the super-heavy Moon rocket beyond 2025 required finding the new launch vehicle for the new-generation spacecraft. Since the agency simultaneously endorsed upgrading the medium-class Angara-5 rocket into an Angara-A5V (or Angara-5V for short) variant, engineers at RKK Energia, the PTK NP developer, attempted to fit the spacecraft and its missions into this much smaller rocket. The Angara would have no problem to insert the PTK NP into the low Earth orbit, however an orbital assembly would be required for practically any deep-space mission, which has been proclaimed as the main purpose of the PTK NP project. With a projected payload capacity of 37.5 tons, it would take a pair of Angara-5V launchers to place the PTK NP into an orbit around the Moon or into the Earth-Moon Lagrangian points. Even more problematic, four such rockets would be needed to support an expedition to the surface of the Moon. For comparison, NASA intended to rely on a single SLS super-heavy launcher to insert its Orion vehicle into the lunar orbit. Under most optimistic scenarios in the Russia's long-term space strategy, the circumlunar mission based on Angara-5V vehicles could be accomplished around 2025 and the lunar landing around 2029. As in the several previous years, Roskosmos was largely mum about the progress in the development and testing of the PTK NP spacecraft. It is known that RKK Energia started the year hoping to win the agency's contract, which would see the PTK NP project through its first unmanned test launch in 2021. RKK Energia also announced that it had planned to begin issuing working and design documentation for the spacecraft and manufacture prototypes and flight-worthy hardware for the project. In April, RKK Energia confirmed that the crew cabin for the PTK NP would be made of a composite material replacing the 1570C aluminum alloy to save mass. The move was apparently a part of weight-cutting measures demanded by Roskosmos, in order to fit the PTK NP into the Angara-5V rocket. At the Moscow Air and Space Show in August 2015, RKK Energia demonstrated an updated mockup of the descent module and a full-scale prototype of the crew cabin made of composite materials. As it turned out, the composite structure had been manufactured in Germany even though RKK Energia officials had previously pledged to keep the design free of foreign components in the face of Western sanctions. Two other prototypes of the spacecraft for certification and flight tests were promised in 2016, but little is known about the current status of this work or the flight test program. On August 26, Roskosmos announced a contest for a new name for the spacecraft, which included a public poll coducted from December 4 to December 23. The results approved by a jury chaired by the head of Roskosmos Igor Komarov were announced only on January 15, 2016. The new ship would be named Federatsiya, a Russian word for 'federation'. Referring to the political structure of the Russian state, the name continued a tradition of the Soyuz spacecraft, whose name meant 'union', reflecting the official name of the Soviet state -- the Soviet Union. Runner-up names in the contest, such as Gagarin and Vektor, were reserved for future space projects.
RKK Energia
Christoph Eibeck explains the museum of the rocket company RKK Energiya.
K.Massimov's visit to RSC Energia
Moscow region, November 6, 2011
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov visited Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia during his working visit to the Russian Federation. Karim Massimov was familiarized with the process of development of manned, unmanned space and missile systems, visited the Center for Technology Development and Personnel Training, control and test station and familiarized with the exposition of the museum of RSC Energia.
ASTP Crews at RSC Energia Museum.wmv
ASTP crews are at the RSC-Energia Museum. Meeting Vladimir Putin.
RUSSIA: PROGRESS M1-5 CARGO SHIP DOCKS
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A cargo ship intended to dump Russia's Mir space station into the Pacific Ocean successfully docked with the orbiter Saturday, readying the last chapter in the battered spaceship's 15-year history.
The Progress M1-5 cargo ship, loaded with more than two tons of fuel, will fire its thrusters to send the 140-ton (tonne) station hurtling through the Earth's atmosphere over South Pacific.
Russian space officials set March 6 as a tentative date for discarding the station, but warned that it may change.
The flawless automatic docking at 8:33 a.m. Moscow time (0533 GMT) was greeted with relief and applause at Mission Control.
The docking went without a hitch, said Valery Lyndin, a spokesman for Mission Control in Korolyov 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Moscow.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has sought to calm down fears that Mir might crash on land, issuing a statement on Friday that said that debris would be aimed at an ocean area near 47 degrees south latitude and 140 degrees west longitude, about halfway between Australia and Chile.
Officials said that chunks of Mir, some weighing up to 700 kilograms (1,500 pounds), would survive the fiery re-entry and splash into the ocean half an hour after Mir enters the atmosphere.
In 1978, a Soviet satellite crashed in northern Canada, scattering radioactive fragments over the wilderness but causing no injuries.
A year later, the unoccupied U.S. Skylab space station fell to Earth, spreading debris over western Australia. No one was hurt.
Mir's orbit has gradually dropped from 350 kilometers (215 miles) above the Earth in the end of December to about 300 kilometers (185 miles).
It's expected to come down to 240 kilometers (150 miles) before the Progress fires its thrusters several times to push the Mir to the Earth.
At the time of its launch on February 20, 1986, Mir was on the cutting edge of space research and it has outlived its original estimated three to five year lifespan, hosting dozens of cosmonauts and foreign astronauts and providing unique know-how on long-term space flight.
But as it aged, the station was plagued by accidents - from a fire and a near-fatal collision with a cargo ship in 1997 to computer breakdowns and other equipment failures.
After long hesitation, the Russian government decided in December that Mir must be dumped because it's no longer safe and is too expensive to fix.
The decision has angered many cosmonauts, space officials and politicians who deplored the loss of the last remaining symbol of Soviet space glory.
The U-S space agency NASA has urged Russia to discard Mir and concentrate its scarce resources on the new international space station, a U-S-led project that was delayed two years because of Russia's failure to provide a key segment.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
Now we have enough fuel onboard Mir to ensure a successful de-orbiting of the station into the chosen sector of the Earth's oceans. Without a doubt, today's operation (the docking) was a crucial one and the number of specialists at the Mission control centre today is a proof of its importance.
SUPER CAPTION: Yuri Semyonov, President, RKK Energiya (Mir constructor)
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Watch Live- LAUNCH OF ROSCOSMOS SOYUZ-2.1A WITH PROGRESS MS-11( cargo ship to re-supply ISS Mission)
As usual, Progress MS-11 was scheduled to deliver to the station under three tons of fuel, water, food and other supplies. Among non-standard cargo, GKNPTs Khrunichev announced in November 2018 the planned delivery of four low-noise air fans with dust collectors, along with 48 spare dust filters. The new device, intended for installation inside the FGB Zarya module built at GKNPTs Khrunichev, promised to reduce noise and improve air quality aboard the station. According to the company, it was a part of a wider upgrade work recommended by the international working group looking for ways to reduce noise aboard the station. At the time, a total of eight air fans with specially profiled blades were expected to be delivered to the ISS to replace all old fans aboard the FGB Zarya module.
Also, the official TASS news agency broke the story that Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko working aboard the ISS since December 2018 would also get his late New Year's gifts with Progress MS-11 to replace a bag of his favorite candy, which was destroyed during the aborted launch of the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft in October 2018, probably because it had been stored in the expendable Habitation Module. Why Kononenko's presents were not sent to him before the New Year with Progress MS-10 or Soyuz MS-12, remained unexplained.
In March 2019, RIA Novosti quoted a food expert at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of Space flight, IMBP, in Moscow, who listed oatmeal porridge, garlic and cottage cheese with fruits and peanuts among exotic food items in the ship's cargo.
Preparing the mission:-
As of 2014, the launch of Progress MS-11 was scheduled for April 16, 2018, but the mission was eventually postponed to February 8, 2019.
In the meantime, the assembly of the spacecraft at RKK Energia's plant, ZEM, in Korolev near Moscow was completed in September 2018. After its delivery to Baikonur, Progress MS-11 was unloaded from its rail container and installed in its test rig for initial checks on September 12, 2018.
In the wake of the air leak incident aboard the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft in orbit in August 2018, Progress MS-11 underwent an additional inspection. The cargo ship was then put in storage until the start of its launch campaign in November 2018. In the fall of 2018, the mission was rescheduled from February 7 to February 8, 2019. The launch vehicle for the mission arrived at Baikonur around the middle of October 2018 and the spacecraft itself was shipped to the launch site in the middle of December 2018.
In November 2018, delays with the launch of the EgyptSat-A spacecraft created a schedule conflict at Site 31 in Baikonur and required the postponement of the launch of Progress MS-11 to March 28, 2019, the Kommersant newspaper reported. At the beginning of January 2019, RIA Novosti reported that the launch had been pushed from March 28 to April 4, for an unexplained reason.
On March 19, the technical management of the mission gave the green light to the loading of Progress MS-11 with propellant components and pressurized gases. The fueling operations were conducted from March 21 to 22 and on March 22, the spacecraft was delivered back to its processing facility at Site 254 for closeout operations.
On March 28, specialists from RKK Energia completed the installation of the cargo ship on its launch vehicle adapter, the company announced. Next day, the team conducted the final visual inspection of the spacecraft and then rolled the vehicle inside of its payload fairing, which will protect it during the ascent.
On March 30, the payload section was transported to the launch vehicle assembly building at Site 31 and the next day, it was integrated with its Soyuz-2-1a rocket. The meeting of the technical management then reviewed the readiness for flight and approved the rollout of the rocket to the launch pad.
The Soyuz-2-1a launch vehicle with Progress MS-11 arrived at the launch pad at Site 31 on the morning of April 1.
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Federation (Russian: Федерация, Federatsiya), formerly called PPTS (Prospective Piloted Transport System, Перспективная Пилотируемая Транспортная Система, Perspektivnaya Pilotiruemaya Transportnaya Sistema) is a project by Roscosmos to develop a new-generation, partially reusable piloted spacecraft.
Until 2016 its official name was Пилотируемый Транспортный Корабль Нового Поколения, Pilotiruemyi Transportny Korabl Novogo Pokoleniya or PTK NP meaning New Generation Piloted Transport Ship. The goal of the project is to develop a new-generation spacecraft to replace the aging Soyuz spacecraft developed by the former Soviet Union to support low Earth orbit and lunar operations. It is similar in function to the American Orion spacecraft.The PPTS project was started following the failed attempt by Russia and the European Space Agency to co-develop the Crew Space Transportation System (CSTS), which until the middle of 2006 was known as the ACTS. Following this the Russian Federal Space Agency ordered the local space industry to finalize proposals for the new crewed spacecraft. A firm development contract was awarded to RKK Energia on December 19, 2013.Federation will be capable of carrying crews of four into Earth orbit and beyond on missions of up to 30 days. If docked with a space station, it could stay in space up to a year, which is double the duration of the Soyuz spacecraft. The spacecraft will send cosmonauts to lunar orbit, with a plan to place a space station there.
Russia: Russian robot FEDOR finally arrives home
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Roscosmos confirmed the successful return of the Russian humanoid robot Skybot F-850 Fedor to the spacecraft company 'Energia' in Korolyov on Tuesday.
Specialists from the Space Construction Company (RKK) extracted FEDOR from his capsule using a hoist.
The Soyuz MS-14 carrying the robot landed back on Earth in a rural area of south-central Kazakhstan on Friday, after spending two weeks abroad the International Space Station (ISS).
FEDOR - short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research - was Russia's first humanoid robot to be sent into space.
The aim of the mission was to free up time for human crews on board as well as testing a new kind of spacecraft.
FEDOR's unmanned Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on August 22. It failed to dock on its first attempt, eventually attaching itself to the ISS on August 27.
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Moscow Day 5 - пятый день
Geburtstag von S.P. Koroljow - День рождения С. П. Королев
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Ralf Heckel: Today is the birthday of Sergey Korolev. We are invited by his daughter. We start in the early morning to an official tour. Our stations are RKK Energia, Korolev City and Moscow/Kremlin Wall. A small VIP delegation is visiting all memorials and places of living and working of S.P. Korolev. We are invited guests since 8 years. Everytime we take other students with us. See how they explain their experiences as report and movie. See the numerous photos. Each is a unique and not reachable for many people.
The students were able to speak with Cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri and Sergey Krikalev. Catherine Truheva also talks with the new chief designer of RKK Energia. After this day Yvonne and I are invited to the VIP-dinner in the Korolev-flat. There are 30 persons only. All have key-positions in the Russian spaceflight system.
VIP тур по местам Сергея Павловича Королева
Catherine Trusheva, 12.01.2015
Сегодня был пятый день нашей экспедиции. В семь часов мы встретились около гостиницы Оазис. Все были одеты в наши костюмы NASA. Сегодня состоялся VIP тур по местам Сергея Павловича Королева. Ведь сегодня у Него День Рождения! Мы всей нашей командой поехали на метро к дому Натальи Сергеевны Королевой - к дочке С.П. Королева. Приехав, мы прошли одну улицу и оказались перед ее домом.
Там же стоял микроавтобус. Мы сели в него и начали общаться с женщиной,которая проводила этот тур. Через несколько минут из подъезда вышла Наталья Сергеевна. Когда она зашла в автобус, мы сразу же поехали по главным памятникам и местам Королева.
Первой точкой нашего тура был музей РКК Энергия. Наталья Сергеевна провела нас в офис Сергея Павловича. Показала нам интересные экспонаты и выставки, посвященные 108-ой годовщине рождения ее отца. Когда время приблизилось к 9 часам, мы пошли в техническую секцию музея. Там очень много ракетных двигателей, капсул, станция Мир и многое другое.
Про каждый экспонат нам рассказал Ральф. Мы сделали очень много фотографий. Затем было награждение юных, талантливых студентов. В конце этого мероприятия мы сделали совместную фотографию с Н.С.Королевой.
Затем мы поехали по многим памятникам С.П.Королева. Мы посетили памятник, который находится на ВДНХ; дом, в котором жил Королев; Красную Площадь, где находится его могила. На каждом месте мы возлагали цветы.
За этот день мы познакомились со многими известными космонавтами, летчиками, конструкторами. Также узнали поближе сыновей Н.С.Королевой.
Этот день был очень интересным и значительным!