Аннотация: It is not enough just to desire: you have to do it. A moving towards the Great Space Revolution. The note.
It is not enough just to desire: you have to do it. A moving towards the Great Space Revolution. The note.
The Energia rocket (in the version with 4 side blocks) was capable of lifting about 100 tons of payload into near-earth orbit - 5 times more than the Proton launch vehicle (which is using now).
Only two launches of the Energia rocket were carried out:
May 15, 1987 with an experimental load: the Polyus satellite (mass and size model of the Skif-DM orbital laser platform), was not launched into orbit due to a failure of the attitude control system of the spacecraft itself;
November 15, 1988 as part of the MTKK "Buran" complex.
In the early 1990s, the project was stopped for a time.
In 1993, the final closure of the program took place.
This is information from Wikipedia.
Thus, we see that the Soviet space industry was on the verge of a qualitative leap. The mass of the payload which could be be launched into orbit increased 5 times.
At the same time, only one successful launch (November 15, 1988) does not allow making a confident conclusion about the achievement of a qualitatively new level by the Soviet space industry.
The tasks of the exploration of Mars and the Moon require the development and commissioning of a super-heavy rocket capable of placing a load of approximately 100 tons into a near-earth orbit.
In general, we can talk about active creative search. Names, goals, tasks, design solutions are changing. This is especially true for Elon Musk.
Today, work is underway on two models of super-heavy missiles.
First, Elon Musk is testing BFR (Starship plus Super Heavy).
Second, NASA (NASA and Boeing) is testing the Space Launch System (which is planned to be used with the Orion spacecraft). On March 18, 2021, the next tests of the main stage of the SLS rocket were carried out. (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-mega-moon-rocket-passes-key-test-readies-for-launch)
Thus, mankind is steadily moving towards the emergence of a super-heavy rocket capable of launching a load of approximately 100 tons into a near-earth orbit.
As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said: "It is not enough just to desire: you have to do it."
(An attempt to compare the super-heavy rockets developed by Elon Musk and NASA (without mentioning the Energia rocket) was made by authors Gareth Dorrian and Ian Whittaker in material: "Nasa: who will get us to the Moon first? Here's how their latest rockets compare". January 29, 2021 11.05 am GMT. (Https://theconversation.com/spacex-vs-nasa-who-will-get-us-to-the-moon-first-heres-how-their-latest-rockets-compare -154199) (https://realnoevremya.ru/articles/201880-spacex-vs-nasa-kto-pervym-dostavit-nas-na-lunu)).
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Translation from Russian into English: March 22, 2021 08:08.
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