Roscosmos May Resume Ten Day Flights To Space Station

Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, may fix up short-range ten-day flights to the ISS for example a new time of U.S. spacecraft enters go. On the other hand, long-term missions to the ISS are to be nonstop to nine months as hurriedly as upgraded Soyuz spacecraft are commissioned in 2015, the supercilious of human space flight at Roscosmos, Aleksey Krasnov, told Itar-Tass Monday. "In the opt for, for example new U.S. manned spacecraft are protected, which fortitude clearly not form until 2017-2018, we'll be integrating in our flight programmes not purely long-term missions but then visiting flights, go for make somewhere your home to the 'Mir' space station and at the first stages of the ISS construction," he alleged.

"The abstract for rude special item flights may genesis for example a recognized analyst carries out a programme inside ten being or a month and goes keep up to the Alight similar to the outcome," Krasnov explained calculation that in that case the ISS followers would convene a wider range of opportunities, now squeezed voguish a constant delivery of long-term flights.

As well, orbital missions may then be nonstop for the plausibly most effective use of the protected money. "We may conduct to nine-month flights, as we suppose that the new spacecraft, which is now in the convalesce position [Soyuz TMA-MS], fortitude be able to prevail in rotate longer than the current one [Soyuz TMA-M]," Krasnov alleged.

Enduring flights fortitude be everyday three mature a engagement, not four, similar to short-range flights to be fixed in between similar to the use of new spacecraft Russia's ISS counterparts fortitude convene at their disposal. Month-long flights fortitude then be everyday, Krasnov further.

The first Soyuz TMA-MS flight is everyday for 2015. This Soyuz clone is to convene choice solar cell panels, made to order docking and set control engines, which fortitude back up for next to and docking similar to the ISS level if one of the engines fails, and look at re-entry at any rate any two engine failures. The spacecraft fortitude convene trade homily and emitter fixed systems, as well as compel line system - all through satellite data program channels. Suggest control and navigation systems fortitude be aware of the most dramatic overhaul.

On the U.S. side, Lockheed Martin Industry is jade a new manned spacecraft Orion. NASA is thinking to use such spacecraft for expeditions to external space, in slam to asteroids and Mars but, if required, they may then spread crews and other payloads to the ISS. The later fortitude be fundamental the job of the new, commercially mechanized U.S. spacecraft. In slam, Sierra Nevada is thinking to ignoble its Trance Tracker for a assembly of seven by 2016. Boeing organization is then scheming a commercial project, its own spacecraft model CST-100.

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