Russia Wants To Build A New Extra-Heavy Launcher

ROCKET SCIENCE

The center's existing Angara rockets (pictured), which are designed for heavy lift and similar to the U.S. Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle, or EELV, can lift a maximum of 27 tons of payload into low-Earth orbit.

Moscow (UPI) Mar 08, 2005
Russian space engineers are designing a next-generation, super-heavy booster rocket, local media reported Tuesday.

Anatoly Kuzin, deputy general director of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, was reported by the ITAR-TASS news agency as saying the center is working on a three-stage rocket capable of lifting 110 tons of payload into low-Earth orbit and providing materials for assembling future space stations there.

All manned spaceflights currently are limited to low-Earth orbit, between 210 miles and 840 miles in altitude.

The rocket's four-chambered RD-170 engine will be used in the first stage, Kuzin said, followed by the RD-180, a two-thrust-chamber derivative of the RD-170, for the second stage. The third stage will have the one-chamber RD-0122 engine.

The center's existing Angara rockets, which are designed for heavy lift and similar to the U.S. Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle, or EELV, can lift a maximum of 27 tons of payload into low-Earth orbit.

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ROCKET SCIENCE

The Promise Of Modular Launch Vehicles

Prague, Czech (SPX) Mar 07, 2005
It is not necessary to solve a problem EELVs versus HLLVs. The best solution is to connect both systems in a modular concept. At the present time, there exist four possible modules suitable for such concept:

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