Roscosmos announced intentions to construct a launcher” Zenith “, which It will run on liquefied natural gas. The money for this missile want to lay in the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 years.
According to the newspaper “Izvestia”, at the moment almost completed work on the development of conceptual design of the launch vehicle “Soyuz 5″. Designers pay attention that the natural gas that will run the rocket is very cost effective and environmentally friendly. Previously used kerosene.
As part of the development work “Propulsion launch vehicles” is planned to develop the basic elements of the cruise propulsion systems on the oxygen-carbon fuel. On this Roskosmos requested to allocate more than 25 billion rubles (with the beginning of financing this year in the amount of over 470 million), but not all funds are intended to create a methane engine.
«Gas” carrier rocket slated to appear in 2021 . On the basis of his plan to create a series of missiles, including the heavy and extra heavy. This can be achieved thanks to the new design scheme: a two-stage vehicle with two lateral blocks. « If you have a two-stage rocket powerful engines lighter, easier to manage and produce. A side blocks allow to increase its lift and therefore the mass payloads cargo », – said the first deputy general director of the center Ravil Akhmetov.
« We are planning to make a demonstrator engine methane, even taking into account the fact that the vehicle with the engine build is not scheduled. Thus, we think provide the groundwork to be outdone in terms of technologies from foreign competitors. While we are talking about creating an engine average thrust for the second stage prospective missile », – quote” News of one of the drafters of the French Communist Party.
According to him, initially intended that methane engines will be equipped with the missile ” Phoenix “(it is also planned to develop the project FCP), but later taking into account the budget, it was decided not to make an entirely new missile, and go back to the idea of recreating the Russian” Zenith “with upgraded engine RD-171.
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