https://www.rt.com/news/338092-russia-angara-moon-roscosmos/

Russian engineers have presented a prototype of Russia’s most powerful “Angara A5V” heavy-lift rocket that may perform its first manned flight to the Moon by 2030. As RT has learned from the Roscosmos chief the project is proceeding according to schedule. Trends Space exploration

“At the end of February we drew up a preliminary design of a heavy-lift rocket Angara A5V. It is now being reviewed by all relevant research institutes,” the head of Roscosmos Igor Komarov told RT.

The A5V spacecraft would add to Russia’s brand-new Angara rocket family which is based on unified Universal Rocket Modules (URM). Angara has been in development since 1994 and became the first spacecraft family produced entirely after the Soviet era.

Unlike its “siblings” – Angara A5 rockets – Angara A5V is slated to be more efficient and capable of transporting a payload of up 38 tons. While looking quite similar, both featuring one core and four booster URMs as the first stage, due to some upgrades A5V can lift over 10 tons more than Angara A5.

For those of you keeping score at home: Russia (as distinct from the Soviet Union) has had zero successful off-earth missions. Ever.

Zero, nul, none.

dv said:

For those of you keeping score at home: Russia (as distinct from the Soviet Union) has had zero successful off-earth missions. Ever.

Zero, nul, none.

yet they are the only ones that the US has to use to get to the ISS

the russians have been slow and steady

dv said:

For those of you keeping score at home: Russia (as distinct from the Soviet Union) has had zero successful off-earth missions. Ever.

Zero, nul, none.

How many have they attempted?

wookiemeister said:

dv said:

For those of you keeping score at home: Russia (as distinct from the Soviet Union) has had zero successful off-earth missions. Ever.

Zero, nul, none.

yet they are the only ones that the US has to use to get to the ISS

the russians have been slow and steady

That’s like a bus to Kmart.

dv said:

wookiemeister said:

dv said:

For those of you keeping score at home: Russia (as distinct from the Soviet Union) has had zero successful off-earth missions. Ever.

Zero, nul, none.

yet they are the only ones that the US has to use to get to the ISS

the russians have been slow and steady

That’s like a bus to Kmart.

yet the yanks have to take that bus if they want to get into space – they also have to buy russian rocket engines to do it

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

For those of you keeping score at home: Russia (as distinct from the Soviet Union) has had zero successful off-earth missions. Ever.

Zero, nul, none.

How many have they attempted?

two

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

For those of you keeping score at home: Russia (as distinct from the Soviet Union) has had zero successful off-earth missions. Ever.

Zero, nul, none.

How many have they attempted?

The GFC stuffed the US space programme, they stepped back and cut NASA funding and rightly so, it’s all about priorities.
The’ll come back, their space efforts are always top shelf, their mars missions are a testimony to that.

dv said:

off-earth mission

What does that mean?

Jing Joh said:

dv said:

off-earth mission

What does that mean?

Going into space probably.

Jing Joh said:

dv said:

off-earth mission

What does that mean?

It means missions to the moon, to a planet other than earth or one of that planet’s moons, to an asteroid, to Pluto or another KBO or Scattered Disk object, to a comet, to the sun, basically to some target other than Earth..Hence … off … Earth.

dv said:

For those of you keeping score at home: Russia (as distinct from the Soviet Union) has had zero successful off-earth missions. Ever.

Zero, nul, none.

Omg. I hadn’t realised that. I only knew that Russia+USSR had extremely bad luck on every single mars mission.

i’m seeing russia going back to sending a few recon missions around the moon

landing something on the moon

a manned flyby and then descent to the surface

you never know with the russians, they might have a few missions where they are in orbit around the moon for a few days perhaps

i’m seeing that they might even extend the odd tourist to these missions

dv said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

For those of you keeping score at home: Russia (as distinct from the Soviet Union) has had zero successful off-earth missions. Ever.

Zero, nul, none.

How many have they attempted?

two

Checking web. I don’t see any. The phobos probes were launched in 1988, before the USSR broke up. After breakup, funds died and all scientific work was off the agenda until 2005. After 2005, scientific work was reestablished, but only for near Earth. Scientific work after 2005 included ISS, radio astronomy, bioscience, weather. A gamma ray and UV telescope are planned.

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

How many have they attempted?

two

Checking web. I don’t see any.

Mars 96
Phobos-Grunt

dv said:

It means missions to the moon, to a planet other than earth or one of that planet’s moons, to an asteroid, to Pluto or another KBO or Scattered Disk object, to a comet, to the sun, basically to some target other than Earth..Hence … off … Earth.

Fair enough, I just wondered why the ISS is not considered off Earth.

Jing Joh said:

dv said:

It means missions to the moon, to a planet other than earth or one of that planet’s moons, to an asteroid, to Pluto or another KBO or Scattered Disk object, to a comet, to the sun, basically to some target other than Earth..Hence … off … Earth.

Fair enough, I just wondered why the ISS is not considered off Earth.

Its within the gravitational pull of Earth

so is the sun

CrazyNeutrino said:

Jing Joh said:

dv said:

It means missions to the moon, to a planet other than earth or one of that planet’s moons, to an asteroid, to Pluto or another KBO or Scattered Disk object, to a comet, to the sun, basically to some target other than Earth..Hence … off … Earth.

Fair enough, I just wondered why the ISS is not considered off Earth.

Its within the gravitational pull of Earth

So is the moon, is it not?

jjjust moi said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Jing Joh said:

Fair enough, I just wondered why the ISS is not considered off Earth.

Its within the gravitational pull of Earth

So is the moon, is it not?

The moon is moving away from Earth, moving away from us at a rate of 3.78 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year.

SCIENCE said:

so is the sun

The sun has a small gravitational pull on Earth

, the gravitational pull of the sun is only 0.0006 of the strength of the earth’s gravity on the surface of the earth. But that’s enough to pull the entire planet around in a big, nearly circular orbit, once per year.

https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=184

I presume the Sun has a similar pull on the moon

the moon is moving away from Earth,

http://www.universetoday.com/116158/why-doesnt-the-sun-steal-the-moon/
https://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091027220812AAq4kPA

a question

When is the moon going to stop moving away from Earth?

The moon is moving away from Earth, moving away from us at a rate of 3.78 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year.

and it would be moving away a damn lot quicker if it wasn’t in the gravitational pull of the earth.

When is the moon going to stop moving away from Earth?

until the time when the earth is no longer around.

ChrispenEvan said:

The moon is moving away from Earth, moving away from us at a rate of 3.78 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year.

and it would be moving away a damn lot quicker if it wasn’t in the gravitational pull of the earth.

the sun has a pull on the moon which would slow its movement away from Earth

is the speed of the moon enough to break free of the Suns Pull?

is the speed of the moon enough to break free of the Suns Pull?

what do you think?

ChrispenEvan said:

is the speed of the moon enough to break free of the Suns Pull?

what do you think?

think?

ChrispenEvan said:

is the speed of the moon enough to break free of the Suns Pull?

what do you think?

Id say no, but at some point the moon should slow down and settle into its orbit

The Russian funding for the manned space programme has been cut back. The plan calls for a manned lunar landing by 2030 but the current funding only covers initial studies and work on a ‘super heavy’ launch vehicle. The bulk of the work – and funding – isn’t within the scope of the 10 year plan.