Russia's Angara A5 Heavy Load Rocket

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@Beidou2020 , Russia has already tested theirs. China is still not sure if it will launch its own next year or in 2017(or later), thats after over 3-4 years delay and counting...........

Seems Russia is indeed stil keeping one step ahead of China in space.

 

[Beidou2020]

@Beidou2020 , Russia has already tested theirs. China is still not sure if it will launch its own next year or in 2017(or later), thats after over 3-4 years delay and counting...........

Seems Russia is indeed stil keeping one step ahead of China in space.

Btw where is that little midget Britain's space program? LOOOOOOOL

 

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Btw where is that little midget Britain's space program? LOOOOOOOL

Britain space program? I never argued about Britain space program being more davanced than Russia's or anybody. I simply made an obvious observation that China still lags significantly behind Russia in space, and that ONLY THE U.S can match/is in the same league with Russia in space, which you and your Chinese brother @Beast disputed. So i was just trying to point out/prove to you again that Russia is indeed far ahead For the moment.

 

[Beidou2020]

Britain space program? I never argued about Britain space program being more davanced than Russia's or anybody. I simply made an obvious observation that China still lags significantly behind Russia in space, and that ONLY THE U.S can match/is in the same league with Russia in space, which you and your Chinese brother @Beast disputed. So i was just trying to point out/prove to you again that Russia is indeed far ahead For the moment.

British people are banned from talking about space because Britain is irrelevant in space. Do British people even know what a space program does?

 

[Indus Falcon]

British people are banned from talking about space because Britain is irrelevant in space. Do British people even know what a space program does?

This is epic!!!

 

[Beast]

@Beidou2020 , Russia has already tested theirs. China is still not sure if it will launch its own next year or in 2017(or later), thats after over 3-4 years delay and counting...........

Seems Russia is indeed stil keeping one step ahead of China in space.

Glitch! Russian Cargo Ship Spinning Out Of Control | Video

How many steps ahead? Our CZ-5 will debut 2016 or 2017 and not 2026 or 2027. Is that very far away from Russia? And do Russia has planned on something like CZ-9 for a manned Lunar rocket?

China develops new rocket for manned moon mission - Telegraph

And do Russia has planned to continue ISS after it decommissioned?

China space station is comfirmed will be implement in 2020.

 

[ptldM3]

Glitch! Russian Cargo Ship Spinning Out Of Control | Video

How many steps ahead? Our CZ-5 will debut 2016 or 2017 and not 2026 or 2027. Is that very far away from Russia? And do Russia has planned on something like CZ-9 for a manned Lunar rocket?

China develops new rocket for manned moon mission - Telegraph

Russia launches double to tripple the amount of rockets compared to China or the US, more accidents will happen with more launching, it's inevitable.

 

[C130]

Russia launches double to tripple the amount of rockets compared to China or the US, more accidents will happen with more launching, it's inevitable.

Falcon 9 is going to change that ratio real soon.

I wouldn't be surprised if they are launching two rockets a month in the next 3 years

but Russian rockets are quite reliable.

 

[Transhumanist]

Falcon 9 is going to change that ratio real soon.

I wouldn't be surprised if they are launching two rockets a month in the next 3 years

but Russian rockets are quite reliable.

Add Blue Origins and their New Shepard to the US commercial space calculus too (they are less mature than SpaceX or the United Space Alliance. Still they will be competing for contracts too):

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Just Launched Its Flagship Rocket

YOU’D BE FORGIVEN for forgetting, but Elon Musk and Richard Branson aren’t the only billionaire magnates at the helm of a spacecraft company, gunning to rule the future of privatized space flight. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has been flying under the radar—but at long last, the company yesterday launched its flagship suborbital spacecraft from its West Texas proving grounds in a developmental test flight.

Video released by the company shows the spacecraft, called New Shepard, blasting off to an altitude of 307,000 feet before its crew capsule separates from a propulsion module. Named after the first US astronaut in space, Alan Shepard, the craft is meant to take off and land vertically, utilizing a reusable first-stage booster—the same approach SpaceX is using in its Falcon 9 rocket.

Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000, two years before SpaceX and four before Virgin Galactic. Now, all those companies are hot on the trail of reusable spacecraft, which would dramatically decrease the cost of space travel. If any of them can figure out how to land a rocket successfully back on the ground, each delivery—either of people or supplies, like SpaceX has been getting up to the International Space Station—will only cost the fuel it takes to power the rocket’s ascent, instead of the cost of an entire spacecraft.

This time, Blue Origin’s craft successfully recovered its crew capsule, which separated from the rocket booster and drifted to the ground under three parachutes. “Any astronauts on board would have had a very nice journey into space and a smooth return,” Bezos wrote in an announcement. After the separation of the capsule and rocket, the upper stage is meant to propel New Shepard higher into Earth’s orbit, while the first-stage booster descends back to Earth for a smooth landing.

But like Space X, the company was unable to recover the propulsion module—this was not a successful landing of the reusable rocket. (The Blue Origin page about the launch includes some potentially confusing wording, saying “Blue Origin Successfully Flies Reusable Spacecraft.”) SpaceX has twice tried and failed to re-land their Falcon 9 booster back on Earth (well, not quite on Earth—on an autonomously-controlled barge in the middle of the ocean), and Blue Origin is no different.

“Unfortunately we didn’t get to recover the propulsion module because we lost pressure in our hydraulic system on descent,” wrote Bezos. (SpaceX’s first unsuccessful landing was attributed to a hydraulic failure too, though that seemed to be the result of running out of hydraulic fluid.) Bezos says an improved hydraulic system is already in the works, and that two more rockets are already in production, though he didn’t say when to expect Blue Origin’s next launch. Notably, none of the footage released by the company shows the rocket coming to its likely-fiery end.

Blue Origin’s first test vehicle was Charon, which made its only test flight in March 2005, to a very modest altitude of 316 feet. Its successor, Goddard, flew up to 285 feet in November 2006. Bezos and the company have been relatively mum on what it has been up to since. Unlike SpaceX, which seems to prefer releasing grainy Vines of every sordid crash, Blue Origin hardly makes headlines, preferring a much more tight-lipped approach (the company’s existence wasn’t even publicly known until 2003).

 

[C130]

Add Blue Origins and their New Shepard to the US commercial space calculus too (they are less mature than SpaceX or the United Space Alliance. Still they will be competing for contracts too):

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Just Launched Its Flagship Rocket

YOU’D BE FORGIVEN for forgetting, but Elon Musk and Richard Branson aren’t the only billionaire magnates at the helm of a spacecraft company, gunning to rule the future of privatized space flight. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has been flying under the radar—but at long last, the company yesterday launched its flagship suborbital spacecraft from its West Texas proving grounds in a developmental test flight.

Video released by the company shows the spacecraft, called New Shepard, blasting off to an altitude of 307,000 feet before its crew capsule separates from a propulsion module. Named after the first US astronaut in space, Alan Shepard, the craft is meant to take off and land vertically, utilizing a reusable first-stage booster—the same approach SpaceX is using in its Falcon 9 rocket.

Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000, two years before SpaceX and four before Virgin Galactic. Now, all those companies are hot on the trail of reusable spacecraft, which would dramatically decrease the cost of space travel. If any of them can figure out how to land a rocket successfully back on the ground, each delivery—either of people or supplies, like SpaceX has been getting up to the International Space Station—will only cost the fuel it takes to power the rocket’s ascent, instead of the cost of an entire spacecraft.

This time, Blue Origin’s craft successfully recovered its crew capsule, which separated from the rocket booster and drifted to the ground under three parachutes. “Any astronauts on board would have had a very nice journey into space and a smooth return,” Bezos wrote in an announcement. After the separation of the capsule and rocket, the upper stage is meant to propel New Shepard higher into Earth’s orbit, while the first-stage booster descends back to Earth for a smooth landing.

But like Space X, the company was unable to recover the propulsion module—this was not a successful landing of the reusable rocket. (The Blue Origin page about the launch includes some potentially confusing wording, saying “Blue Origin Successfully Flies Reusable Spacecraft.”) SpaceX has twice tried and failed to re-land their Falcon 9 booster back on Earth (well, not quite on Earth—on an autonomously-controlled barge in the middle of the ocean), and Blue Origin is no different.

“Unfortunately we didn’t get to recover the propulsion module because we lost pressure in our hydraulic system on descent,” wrote Bezos. (SpaceX’s first unsuccessful landing was attributed to a hydraulic failure too, though that seemed to be the result of running out of hydraulic fluid.) Bezos says an improved hydraulic system is already in the works, and that two more rockets are already in production, though he didn’t say when to expect Blue Origin’s next launch. Notably, none of the footage released by the company shows the rocket coming to its likely-fiery end.

Blue Origin’s first test vehicle was Charon, which made its only test flight in March 2005, to a very modest altitude of 316 feet. Its successor, Goddard, flew up to 285 feet in November 2006. Bezos and the company have been relatively mum on what it has been up to since. Unlike SpaceX, which seems to prefer releasing grainy Vines of every sordid crash, Blue Origin hardly makes headlines, preferring a much more tight-lipped approach (the company’s existence wasn’t even publicly known until 2003).

I've only really paid attention to Blue Origin engine development.

BE-4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Blue Origin a few days ago

 

[sparten]

SpaceX talks a lot. Their actual accomplishments are few and they have used a shit ton of USG money thus far.
ULA has the experience.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

SpaceX talks a lot. Their actual accomplishments are few and they have used a shit ton of USG money thus far.
ULA has the experience.

If the Falcon Heavy lifts off it will all be worth it. It will be the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V and it will be reusable - opening up an enormous opportunity for large numbers of heavy space launches relatively cheaply.

Expected to launch in just a few months.

 

[C130]

Blue Origin a few days ago

the dimensions of it makes it look awkward , but that's pretty impression for a single engine rocket.

can't wait for a scaled up version

SpaceX talks a lot. Their actual accomplishments are few and they have used a shit ton of USG money thus far.
ULA has the experience.

accomplishments are few, lol.

spaceX makes the Indian,Japanese,North Korea, Iran, space vehicles seem second rate.
every launch has pretty much been successful that's an accomplishment in it's self. the dragon V2 is an accomplishment. the reusable first stage rocket gross hopper is an accomplishment.
the merlin 1D with the highest thrust to weight ratio of any of rocket engine is an accomplishment.

and this is a private company too

another decade and spaceX will be dominating the space tourism sector.