Аннотация: Michael Kokorich and his innovative jet engine for outer space. A biographical note.
Michael Kokorich and his innovative jet engine for outer space. A biographical note.
Mikhail Kokorich was born on October 11, 1976 in the village of Aginskoye, Chita oblast. [The city of Chita was the center of the Chita oblast since 1937. Since March 1, 2008, Chita has been the administrative center of the Trans-Baikal Krai.]
I did not find an article about Michael (Mikhail) Kokorich on Wikipedia. The source of information about him (for this note) is materials from the media.
If we look at the dictionary by Vladimir Dahl (Vladimir Dal), then we can assume that the surname "Kokorich" comes from some structural elements of a ship, or from the names of some specialties associated with a shipbuilding.
Mikhail Kokorich hardly talks about his family, mentioning only that he stopped living in the family early.
It is known that he dreamed of flying to Mars since his childhood.
His dream led him to the physics department of one of the Siberian universities.
He left the third year and went into small business.
From small business he switched to the organization of retail chains, and from retail chains to the production of satellites. He acquires higher education in Russia and abroad.
'- What does space have to do with it? Orbits, satellites - where is it all from?
- I recently found an article that was written in 1993 in our newspaper "Aginskaya Pravda" ['Агинская правда']. It was called "Maybe I will fly to Mars."This was an article about me. Flying to Mars was my childhood dream. I even wanted to enter the Physicotechnical Institute at the Faculty of Aerophysics and Aerodynamic Research. I thought, dreamed, participated in competitions, won, made spacecraft projects." ('Why did the founder of the first private space company in Russia leave for the USA and how he builds water rockets there.' October 19, 2018. The Bell editorial office. 'Почему основатель первой в России частной космической компании уехал в США и как строит там водяные ракеты.' 19 октября 2018. Редакция The Bell). (https://thebell.io/stali-sheptat-chto-shpion-pochemu-osnovatel-pervoj-v-rossii-chastnoj-kosmicheskoj-kompanii-uehal-v-ssha-i-kak-stroit-tam-vodyanye-rakety)
The topic of satellites ended, but interest in space remained.
Mikhail Kokorich goes over to the idea of developing and manufacturing an engine for space. There is a lot of sunlight in space. You can deliver water in space or find it in space. The water is heated by sunlight. It coud to lead to appearing of jet thrust. This thrust is sufficient as for movement in cosmos (in airless space, in weightlessness) and so to perform a useful services.
Simultaneously with the movement from small business - through retail - to space technologies, Mikhail Kokorich's circle of acquaintances changed.
At the small business stage, his kind colleagues could handcuff him to a radiator and to break several of his ribs.
At the retail stage, respectable entrepreneurs appear, as well as political figures: "Boris Nemtsov, [Vladimir] Ryzhkov..., Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky, I personally know each of them quite well." ['Бориса Немцова, [Владимира] Рыжкова, которому помогал по 'Парнасу', Михаила Борисовича Ходорковского, всех я лично неплохо знаю']
In connection with one of the firms, which was headed by Kokorich, the surname of one of the most significant political figures appears - allegedly this person had a stake in the named firm. But Kokorich diplomatically explains that during his work in this company, he never once met the name of a significant person in the documents (or otherwise).
Finally, the names of Popovkin (the former head of Roscosmos) [Поповкин (бывший руководитель Роскосмоса)] and Lev Khasis [Лев Хасис] ("since September 2013 - First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank, Chief Operating Officer" - an encyclopedia) appear.
Popovkin issued a license to the Kokorich's company for the production of satellites. The Kokorich's private company has started the production and launch of satellites. Several launches have been successful.
Lev Khasis contributed to the advancement of the space engine project on water.
Popovkin existed in chair of the head not endlessly. Several satellites went out of order after launch (for some unknown reason). Mikhail Kokorich's company (for the production of satellites) faced huge debts.
After Popovkin left his post, the attitude towards Kokorich changed, and Kokorich considered it expedient to move to the United States. Apparently, he plans to obtain US citizenship.
A company for the development and production of space engines on water, organized with the participation of Kokorich and (possibly) of Lev Khasis, went on an IPO in the United States.
A foreign citizen (in the United States) - as can be understood from the publications about Kokorich - has the right to invent and to put forward ideas, but he does not have the right to have access to dual-use technologies.
Kokorich had to resign from the position of head of the company he created for the production of space engines on water. The company continues to operate.
Now what?
It can be assumed that Kokorich was not left without money, without means for life, that he lives in the United States and expects to receive US citizenship.
Maybe US citizen Mikhail Kokorich will put forward a new idea and will take part in the lunar and / or Martian projects?
Kokorich has many reasons for disappointment. However, someone remained handcuffed to the battery, and Kokorich freed himself from the battery to which he was chained. He moved to the United States, reflecting on the problems of space, on the prospects of the space business and on the injustices of fate. At the same time, he acquired not the most outstanding, but quite worthy reputation as a businessman and generator of ideas (in the field of business and of space technologies).
So the interest in space brought Mikhail Kokorich into a cosmic orbit.
July 15, 2021 06:39
Translation from Russian into English: July 15, 2021 17:58.
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