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Russia to scrap Soyuz rockets, replace them with Angara, ISS's future uncertain

Posted by EU Times on Nov 15th, 2018 // No Comment

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The Russians seem to be dangerously paranoid about perfection regarding their rockets. So one rocket failed in the last 43 years and now they wanna scrap the entire Soyuz rocket family just cause one failed and replace it with a new rocket family called Angara but who knows if this is gonna be any good.

Even the liberal mainstream media is saying that Russia should keep Soyuz because scraping it can “set space flight back decades“. You know there’s an old saying, “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”… and 1 failure isn’t broken. Seriously this is a great rocket, the best rocket in the world ever built. This is a disaster of unspeakable proportions as no one else on the entire planet has a rocket capable of successfully flying to the International Space Station. And all of this while we keep dreaming about colonizing other planets? When? How? When soon we won’t even be able to reach the ISS.

The Russians are saying that we should all calm down because their new rocket is gonna be even better but their new rocket isn’t built with the quality-factor in mind, but rather with the cost-factor. Its just going to be cheaper to produce Angara-5P rockets than Soyuz-FG but it doesn’t mean they are gonna be better.

But hey, who knows? Let’s be positive, its not like we can change the course of events, so let’s keep positive, maybe Angara is gonna be good!

So here’s the report according to Pravda:

Russia will complete the operation of the Soyuz booster rocket already in 2019. It goes about the booster, which Russia currently uses for manned space flights to the International Space Station.

Roscosmos, Russia’s Federal Space Agency, decided to take the Soyuz-FG booster out from service in late 2019. In 2020, a new booster rocket will be used to replace the Soyuz-FG, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin wrote on his Twitter account.

Noteworthy, NASA and Eurospace representatives had referred to the Soyuz-FG as the most reliable spacecraft in the world in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018.

For the first time, the Soyuz-FG was launched back in 2001. It was supposed that the booster would be removed from production due to the presence of Ukrainian-made components in the vehicle.

On October 11, 2018, an accident occurred during a manned space launch of the Soyuz-FG booster rocket. Cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague were on board the Soyuz MS-10 spaceship, which the booster was taking to the International Space Station, when the rocket exploded soon after takeoff. The crew returned to Earth safely in a descent capsule.

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