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Is this Energia Rocket and Space Corporation's concept for the Euro-Russian Crew Space Transportation System vehicle? I was told by the two Energia employees on the company's stand that they had been given it to display at the last minute. They knew very little but said they thought it was reusable and it could carry six people
credit: S P Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation
Above is a close up shot of the NASA Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle-like spacecraft that sits in the top left hand corner of the Energia poster on show here at its Farnborough air show stand. Here are some articles about CSTS from flightglobal:
Angara named as possible spacecrew transport system launcher
New Euro-Russian manned spacecraft concept expected in 2008
ESA considers lunar lander proposal
Below is a closeup of the 'cutaway' drawing of the possible CSTS concept vehicle from the Energia stand. Click on the image to see the larger version in this browser window
credit: S P Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation
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the russian CSTS concept seems use MY idea of Chusion Pads' landing system FIRST proposed 15 months ago in this article:
http://www.gaetanomarano.it/articles/025orioncopter.html
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Thank you Rob,
This is for sure THE MOST recent update.
Any specifications (sizes, weight)
Regards,
Igor
I am going to return to the Roscosmos hall today with one of our Russian freelancers and talk to them with the help of translation and get as much detail as I can. I might be able to get some new Soyuz rocket detail as well.
Unfortunately this didn't happen as the Roscosmos hall was so badly staffed that no one was ever there and my Russian colleague had already visited the small temporary structure that housed the Russian space companies and had found no one there that could talk about anything in detail.
Following up you photos from Farnborough - 2008
Spacecraft consists of two modules:
- Landing Module (SA);
- Service Module (PAO);
Landing module – has a shape of a truncated right circular cone with a spherical base.
Length - 3.75 m from docking unit probe to the lowest point of spherical base (without extended landing gears).
Distance from docking unit probe to the upper cone base - 0.5 m.
Height of the truncated cone – 3.0 m.
A cone angle to the axis – 20 deg.
An aperture of a right circular cone - 40 deg.
Diameter of the upper cone base - 1.92 m
Diameter of the lower cone base - 4.1 m
Radius of a spherical base - 6 m
Height of a spherical base - 0.7 m
Surface area of upper cone base - 2.9 square metres.
Surface area of conical surface - 46.3 square metres (without side feature for orientation thrusters).
Surface area of a spherical base - 9 square metres.
Internal volume ~34 cubic metres.
Service Module
Base diameter - 3.14 m
Max diameter - 3.76 m
Length - 2.06 m
Total length of the spacecraft - 6.5 m
All measurments - are pure estimations and deducted by scaling of spaceraft with known elements (docking unit, cosmonaut chairs etc.) Please consider thaem as estimation only.
One of the guys from russian Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum fixed big image (compensted skewing in Photoshop). Would you like to see it.
Did you see this site http://www.russianspaceweb.com/
by Anatoly Zak?
Regards,
Igor