Russia is reportedly developing a reusable, single-stage carrier rocket for interplanetary missions. According to its designers, this rocket, dubbed Korona, will actually be an environmentally friendly space vehicle capable of vertical takeoff and landing.
The work on this project started in the 1990s, according to Sputnik News. The aim was to develop a reusable vehicle that would be the Soviet answer to the American space shuttle. Russian scientists worked on this project for some years before it was abandoned due to the lack of funds.
Recently, some reports surfaced revealing that Russia’s Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau is resuming the work on this reusable vehicle.
On Tuesday, Sergei Molchanov, deputy general designer of Makeyev Design Bureau, provided new information about this vehicle. According to Sputnik News, Molchaonv stated that Korona will have a useful life of approximately 100 flights, and it will have no detachable intermediate stages. Korona will be made of carbon fiber, with the outer layer made of ceramic tiles to protect the vehicle from the intense heat generated during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere. It will feature a modular combustion chamber to burn a low-emission fuel, most likely a mixture of kerosene and liquefied oxygen.
The Rocket Center of Makeyev Design Bureau in Miass, Chelyabinsk, has also confirmed that this space vehicle will be designed to carry up to 12 tons of cargo into low Earth orbit or seven tons into space. It will also be designed to carry cosmonauts to space stations moving in the Earth’s orbit.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is currently the world’s most capable partially reusable rocket. SpaceX designed this two-stage rocket to reduce the cost of space missions while ensuring safe and reliable transport of cargo and satellites into orbit. In 2012, Falcon 9 created history by delivering Dragon capsule into its designated orbit, thus making SpaceX the world’s first private company to visit the International space station (ISS). In the past five years, SpaceX has used this rocket several times to deliver cargo to the ISS.
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has also revealed his plans to make humanity an “interplanetary species.” Musk has promised to send humans to Mars by 2024.
theamazingjex on January 24th, 2018 at 15:28 UTC »
It's easy to design a Single Stage To Orbit reusable vehicle. It's hard to design a SSTO reusable vehicle with a positive payload mass.
Decronym on January 24th, 2018 at 15:12 UTC »
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters ASDS Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (landing platform) BARGE Big-Ass Remote Grin Enhancer coined by @IridiumBoss, see ASDS BFB Big Falcon Booster (see BFR) BFR Big Falcon Rocket (2017 enshrinkened edition) Yes, the F stands for something else; no, you're not the first to notice BFS Big Falcon Spaceship (see BFR) COPV Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel COTS Commercial Orbital Transportation Services contract Commercial/Off The Shelf CRS Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA CST (Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules Central Standard Time (UTC-6) DSG NASA Deep Space Gateway, proposed for lunar orbit ESA European Space Agency ETOV Earth To Orbit Vehicle (common parlance: "rocket") FFSC Full-Flow Staged Combustion GTO Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile ILS International Launch Services Instrument Landing System ITAR (US) International Traffic in Arms Regulations ITS Interplanetary Transport System (2016 oversized edition) (see MCT) Integrated Truss Structure Isp Specific impulse (as explained by Scott Manley on YouTube) JWST James Webb infra-red Space Telescope KSP Kerbal Space Program, the rocketry simulator LEO Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km) Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations) LH2 Liquid Hydrogen LOX Liquid Oxygen LV Launch Vehicle (common parlance: "rocket"), see ETOV MCT Mars Colonial Transporter (see ITS) NERVA Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (proposed engine design) RD-180 RD-series Russian-built rocket engine, used in the Atlas V first stage RP-1 Rocket Propellant 1 (enhanced kerosene) RSS Realscale Solar System, mod for KSP Rotating Service Structure at LC-39 RTLS Return to Launch Site Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, Russia SLS Space Launch System heavy-lift Selective Laser Sintering, see DMLS SRB Solid Rocket Booster SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine SSTO Single Stage to Orbit STS Space Transportation System (Shuttle) TWR Thrust-to-Weight Ratio VTVL Vertical Takeoff, Vertical Landing Jargon Definition EMdrive Prototype-stage reactionless propulsion drive, using an asymmetrical resonant chamber and microwaves Raptor Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX, see ITS cryogenic Very low temperature fluid; materials that would be gaseous at room temperature/pressure hydrolox Portmanteau: liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen mixture kerolox Portmanteau: kerosene/liquid oxygen mixture methalox Portmanteau: methane/liquid oxygen mixture Event Date Description Amos-6 2016-09-01 F9-029 Full Thrust, core B1028, GTO comsat Pre-launch test failure[Thread #2295 for this sub, first seen 24th Jan 2018, 15:12] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]
MatheM_ on January 24th, 2018 at 14:22 UTC »
"single stage", "interplanetary", "reusable". Aren't they biting off more than they can chew?