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俄羅斯將在2017年發射新載人航天器
2010-01-28

　　[據俄新社2010年1月27日報導]  一位元俄羅斯高級太空官員1月26日表示，俄羅斯試圖在2017年發射一個新的載人航天器。
　　
　　俄羅斯能源航太公司的主管稱，俄羅斯計畫在2015年將無人航天器投放市場，有可能從東方港航太中心發射升空。在2017年，載人航天器應該也能研製完畢。他稱現代太空市場“強勢且務實”，美國一直計畫2017年以前將新的載人航天器送入太空。
　　
　　俄羅斯將在2010年8月確定載人航天器助推器的最終設計。俄羅斯能源航太公司的導彈設計廠正在設計用於發射新一代載人航天器的Rus-M助推器。
　　
　　Rus-M的草案模型于2009年夏在MAKS航展上首次展出。運載火箭面臨著嚴格的安全需求，必須確保執行一次或連續飛行，或是在一個發動機失效時能安全著陸。
　　
　　有4個Rus-M助推器的火箭推力可達16~60噸，能與另一枚俄羅斯火箭“安加拉”相媲美，但目前還未進行測試。這種火箭將成為法國“阿裏安”-5發射系統和美國乘員運載火箭“戰神”-1的潛在競爭對手。

　　能源公司已獲得了6億盧布（1990萬美元）項目經費，但有專家質疑，東方港發射台能否在2015年以前建造完成。
　　
　　俄羅斯目前計畫於2015年進行試射，並且將6人座的載人航天器送入低地球軌道，在2018年起實現將4名宇航員送往月球的目標。（中國航太工程諮詢中心 陳菲 侯丹）

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Russia to finalize design of manned spacecraft booster in Aug. 2010

15:4826/01/2010
Russia will finalize in August 2010 the design of a new booster rocket for a manned spacecraft it is planning to launch in 2017, a design bureau chief said on Tuesday.

"The work will end in August," Sergei Tkachenko of the Samara-based Progress design bureau said.

Russia's Energia space corporation, Progress and the Makeyev missile design facility are designing the Rus-M booster rocket to launch a new-generation manned spacecraft from the Vostochny space center currently under construction in the country's Far East.

Last October marked the 45th anniversary of the first flight of the Voskhod spacecraft, which carried three cosmonauts. Russia has since been struggling to increase the capacity of its manned spacecraft.

Since the flight of the world's first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin, in 1961, Russia has used the R-7-derived space boosters to deliver its manned spacecraft into orbit. The United States has meanwhile designed four booster rockets.

The Rus-M draft model was first presented at a MAKS air show in Moscow last summer.

The launch vehicle is facing tough safety requirements, and will have to guarantee a takeoff or ensure a continuous flight or an ejection with a safe landing even with one of its engines out of action.

A family of four Rus-M booster rockets with a capacity of 16 to 60 metric tons could compete with another Russian booster rocket, Angara, that has yet to be tested, and is a potential rival to France's Ariane 5 launch systems and the U.S. crew launch vehicle Ares I.

Russia is planning to test launch the new rocket in 2015, and send manned spacecraft with crews of up to six people into low earth orbits and up to four cosmonauts at a time on Lunar missions from 2018.

Energia has already received 600 million rubles ($19.9 mln at the current exchange rate) of budget funds for the Rus-M project. However, experts doubt if an appropriate launch pad would be built at Vostochny by 2015.

MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti)