Soyuz-FG Rocket Launches Progress MS-10 Resupply Ship to ISS
A Soyuz-FG rocket lifts off with the Progress MS-10 spacecraft. (Credit: Roscosmos)
Editor’s Note: The successful launch of the Soyuz-FG booster — which malfunctioned in October — paves the way for a crew launch to the station on Dec. 3.
BAIKONUR, Kazahkstan (Roscosmos PR) — On November 16, 2018, at 21:14 Moscow time, from the Baikonur cosmodrome, the Soyuz-FG space launch vehicle was successfully launched under the International Space Station (ISS) program. The launch vehicle launched the Progress MS-10 transport cargo ship (TGK) into near-earth orbit.
After the separation of the spacecraft from the third stage of the carrier rocket, the TGK began to carry out the flight program for the ISS.
The convergence of the Progress MS-10 transport vehicle with the station and the approach to the docking module of the Zvezda module of the Russian ISS segment are planned to be carried out automatically under the control of the MCC specialists, as well as the Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev.
The Progress MS-10 ship will have to deliver to the International Space Station about 2.5 tons of various cargoes: more than 1.3 tons of dry cargo, 725 kg of fuel in the refueling system tanks, 420 kg of water in the Rodnik tanks, and 50 kg of compressed air and oxygen in cylinders. In the packing of the cargo compartment – the scientific equipment, components for the life support system, as well as containers with food, clothing, medicines and personal care products for crew members.
The automatic docking of the “truck” with the ISS will take place on November 18 at 22:30 Moscow time.
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Soyuz and Antares needs to be replaced with SSTO. Actually NG has one or a prototype. X-34. Still in good shape.
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The mass and thrust look good. Just enlarge to whatever payload needed.
Initiated and managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, the program’s objective was to build and demonstrate a space access vehicle with greater reliability than was currently available, while reducing the cost of launching payloads into orbit from $10,000 per pound to about $1,000 per pound.
Well duh, $1,000x100lb= $100,000. Yes that would be nice. Cost too much. Cancel right NASA? NGIS, you can and should do it. Borrow the money like SpaceX.
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Come on. Thrust to weight is good enough. Stand it on its tail and launch it. No 1011 needed I think.
Length: 58.3 feet
Wingspan: 27.7 feet
Weight unfueled: 18,000 lb
Fuel: LOX/RP-1, 30,000 lb
Main propulsion: 1 Marshall-designed Fastrac engine
Thrust: 60,000 lb
Maximum speed: Mach 8
Maximum altitude: approximately 50 miles
All composite primary and secondary structure
Autonomous flight control, including approach and landing
48,000lb loaded, 60,000lb thrust. It will go straight up and arc over, throttle back. It will get close to orbit or make it.
Their are two. USAF owns and sells surplus all the time. Ngis should be able to get them cheap. Peter Beck ought to buy one. He can put a lot of his little engines on it. He can lower his prices.