Antares (Taurus II)

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Старый

Ан нет. Действительно качают камеру:
 

Видать не туда посмотрел. :(
1. Ангара - единственная в мире новая РН которая хуже старой (с) Старый Ламер
2. Назначение Роскосмоса - не летать в космос а выкачивать из бюджета деньги
3. У Маска ракета длиннее и толще чем у Роскосмоса
4. Чем мрачнее реальность тем ярче бред (с) Старый Ламер

Старый

Смотрю НК №12-16:
ЦитироватьРама крепления двигателя имеет карданный подвес который позволяет качать камеру при помощи гидравлической системы
Вот откуда видать у меня отложилось качание всего двигателя. :(
1. Ангара - единственная в мире новая РН которая хуже старой (с) Старый Ламер
2. Назначение Роскосмоса - не летать в космос а выкачивать из бюджета деньги
3. У Маска ракета длиннее и толще чем у Роскосмоса
4. Чем мрачнее реальность тем ярче бред (с) Старый Ламер

Apollo13

ЦитироватьСтарый пишет:
Смотрю НК №12-16:
ЦитироватьРама крепления двигателя имеет карданный подвес который позволяет качать камеру при помощи гидравлической системы
Вот откуда видать у меня отложилось качание всего двигателя.  :(
Скорее со времён когда на Антарес сватали РД-193, а про РД-181 ещё толком ничего известно не было.

Старый

ЦитироватьApollo13 пишет:
ЦитироватьСтарый пишет:
Смотрю НК №12-16:
ЦитироватьРама крепления двигателя имеет карданный подвес который позволяет качать камеру при помощи гидравлической системы
Вот откуда видать у меня отложилось качание всего двигателя.  :(  
Скорее со времён когда на Антарес сватали РД-193, а про РД-181 ещё толком ничего известно не было.
Это из пусковой статьи. А на проекты я не смотрю и про них не читаю даже если они реализуемы и заведомо будут реализованы.
1. Ангара - единственная в мире новая РН которая хуже старой (с) Старый Ламер
2. Назначение Роскосмоса - не летать в космос а выкачивать из бюджета деньги
3. У Маска ракета длиннее и толще чем у Роскосмоса
4. Чем мрачнее реальность тем ярче бред (с) Старый Ламер

Старый

А счас я дёрнулся вот от этого снимка: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2mZqZZWIAAsoZn.jpg
1. Ангара - единственная в мире новая РН которая хуже старой (с) Старый Ламер
2. Назначение Роскосмоса - не летать в космос а выкачивать из бюджета деньги
3. У Маска ракета длиннее и толще чем у Роскосмоса
4. Чем мрачнее реальность тем ярче бред (с) Старый Ламер

Дмитрий В.

ЦитироватьСтарый пишет:
А счас я дёрнулся вот от этого снимка: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2mZqZZWIAAsoZn.jpg
И что тебя в нём "дёрнуло"?
Lingua latina non penis canina
StarShip - аналоговнет!

Старый

ЦитироватьДмитрий В. пишет: 
И что тебя в нём "дёрнуло"?
Гнущегося газовода и всей его атрибутики не увидел.
1. Ангара - единственная в мире новая РН которая хуже старой (с) Старый Ламер
2. Назначение Роскосмоса - не летать в космос а выкачивать из бюджета деньги
3. У Маска ракета длиннее и толще чем у Роскосмоса
4. Чем мрачнее реальность тем ярче бред (с) Старый Ламер

Leonar

на месте он...если вы про горячеподбольшим давлением кислород

Дмитрий В.

ЦитироватьСтарый пишет:
ЦитироватьДмитрий В. пишет:
И что тебя в нём "дёрнуло"?
Гнущегося газовода и всей его атрибутики не увидел.
Скрыт за "тарзанником" из трубочек, труб трубищ и жгутов проводов. Но он есть.
Lingua latina non penis canina
StarShip - аналоговнет!

Старый

ЦитироватьДмитрий В. пишет: 
Скрыт за "тарзанником" из трубочек, труб трубищ и жгутов проводов. Но он есть.
Надеюсь ты понял что я его уже разглядел на отдельно стоящем двигателе?
1. Ангара - единственная в мире новая РН которая хуже старой (с) Старый Ламер
2. Назначение Роскосмоса - не летать в космос а выкачивать из бюджета деньги
3. У Маска ракета длиннее и толще чем у Роскосмоса
4. Чем мрачнее реальность тем ярче бред (с) Старый Ламер

Дмитрий В.

ЦитироватьСтарый пишет:
ЦитироватьДмитрий В. пишет:
Скрыт за "тарзанником" из трубочек, труб трубищ и жгутов проводов. Но он есть.
Надеюсь ты понял что я его уже разглядел на отдельно стоящем двигателе?
Ты не представляешь, как я рад за тебя!
Lingua latina non penis canina
StarShip - аналоговнет!

Apollo13

#2111
http://spacenews.com/antares-to-resume-cygnus-launches-later-this-summer/


ЦитироватьAntares to resume Cygnus launches later this summer
by Jeff Foust — June 12, 2017



The Antares returned to flight last October with the launch of a Cygnus cargo spacecraft. The next Antares launch, also of a Cygnus, is planned for later this summer. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

WASHINGTON — Orbital ATK plans to resume using its Antares rocket for launches of the Cygnus cargo spacecraft later this summer, as the company continues to seek additional government and commercial customers for the launch vehicle.
At a June 12 briefing at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, company officials said they expected the next Cygnus mission, OA-8, to launch on an Antares rocket from its facilities there in September, but that the date could be moved up by a month or more depending on NASA's needs.
"The launch date on the manifest now is September the 12th," said Frank Culbertson, president of Orbital ATK's Space Systems Group. That is based on current NASA plans to launch a SpaceX Dragon cargo mission in August. Culbertson said Orbital ATK would be ready to launch sooner depending on NASA's requirements. "We're prepared to launch as early as late July, really, if need be."
That launch will be the second Cygnus mission to use an upgraded version of the Antares rocket, known as the Antares 230. That version uses RD-181 engines from Russian company NPO Energomash in the rocket's first stage, replacing the AJ26 engines from Aerojet Rocketdyne — refurbished versions of Soviet-era NK-33 engines — that had been used on Antares launches through an October 2014 launch failure blamed on that engine.
The Antares 230 first launched in October 2016 on a Cygnus mission designated OA-5. "We've done a detailed data review of all the data from that mission, and it was a very clean mission," said Kurt Eberly, Orbital ATK Antares vice president. Both the first and second stage generated more thrust than originally expected, which he said will allow greater payload performance on future missions.
The launch pad at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops, repaired after the 2014 launch failure, is also ready to support a launch later this summer. "After the last mission, we came through that very well," said Dale Nash, executive director of Virginia Space, the state agency that built the pad for Orbital ATK. The higher performance of the upgraded Antares, he said, allowed it to depart the pad faster, minimizing the wear and tear there. "It came through in remarkably good shape."
Despite the successful return to flight of Antares last October, Orbital ATK announced just a few weeks later that it would launch the next Cygnus spacecraft, OA-7, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5, the same rocket used for two earlier Cygnus launches after the 2014 Antares launch failure.
Company officials said then a desire to get additional cargo on the Cygnus by using the more powerful Atlas 5 led them to purchase another launch, as well as providing NASA with the "highest assurance" they would be able to launch in the spring. That mission launched April 18 and the Cygnus reentered June 11, a week after departing the station.
Culbertson said that Orbital ATK plans to use only the Antares for the foreseeable future. That includes the four remaining missions on its original Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA, including the OA-8 mission, as well as the six missions on its CRS-2 follow-on contract awarded last year. NASA has given an authorization to proceed with the first of those six, which he said is expected to launch some time in 2019.
"Right now, all the missions that we have on the schedule are intended to go on the Antares and to go out of Wallops Flight Facility," he said.
The additional performance available on the Antares 230 will allow future Cygnus missions to carry more cargo. "We'll be flying 3,350 kilograms on OA-8," said Eberly. "We're going to ramp that up by OA-11 to 3,500 [kilograms], and then we'll go even above that for CRS-2 missions."
Those 10 Cygnus missions between later this summer and some time in the 2020s are the only spacecraft currently contracted to launch on Antares, a rocket Orbital Sciences Corp. originally developed as a replacement for the aging Delta 2 for medium-sized payloads.
"We are actively pursuing other missions outside of the CRS contract," Eberly said, declining to go into details because of "competitive nature of some of the bids." He also said that Orbital ATK had "on-ramped" the Antares onto the NASA Launch Services contract vehicle, making it eligible for future NASA missions other than CRS flights.
However, he said there are no plans to seek U.S. Air Force certification of the Antares for military missions. "Right now we're pursuing civil government and commercial," he said.

Apollo13

https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/08/03/orbital-atk-kicks-off-follow-on-station-cargo-contract-targets-next-antares-launch-in-october/

ЦитироватьOrbital ATK kicks off follow-on station cargo contract, targets next Antares launch in October

August 3, 2017 Stephen Clark
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A view inside Orbital ATK's horizontal integration facility at Wallops Island, Virginia, in June. This image shows components of the Antares rocket slated to launch this fall. Credit: Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now
As Orbital ATK engineers aim for the next launch of the company's Antares rocket fr om Virginia this fall, early planning for missions to keep the International Space Station supplied through the early 2020s is already underway.
The Cygnus supply ship is booked for at least 10 more hardware delivery missions to the space station, joining SpaceX's Dragon freighter and Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser spaceplane in the U.S. fleet of unpiloted commercial cargo transporters under contract to NASA.
Orbital ATK plans to send heavier loads, and perhaps large unpressurized elements, to the space station in the future. SpaceX's Dragon and Japan's HTV supply ship currently haul up payload packages and spare parts for mounting outside the complex.
NASA has penciled in Oct. 11 for Orbital ATK's next station cargo launch aboard an Antares rocket from pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, a launch complex located NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
Frank DeMauro, vice president and general manager of Orbital ATK's advanced programs division, said the company's rocket and spacecraft teams would be ready to launch as soon as NASA confirms the space station is ready to receive the robotic cargo craft.
"With Cygnus, the hardware is ready to go to the next phase, which is launch site integration," DeMauro said in a recent interview with Spaceflight Now. "Antares is also in great shape. They've completed all their integration and testing, and they've gotten it all the way to the point wh ere they're ready for their next phase of integration."
"The Antares rocket, as well as the Cygnus spacecraft that it will launch on the next cargo mission to the space station are now essentially built and tested and ready for cargo loading at the Wallops Island launch site," said David Thompson, president and CEO of Orbital ATK, during a quarterly call with investment analysts Thursday. "We were, and are, on schedule to carry (cargo loading) out this month, but I think NASA's going to delay that probably until October in order to provie a full load of cargo."
File photo of an Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo craft prepared for launch earlier his year on an Atlas 5 rocket in Florida. Credit: NASA/Cory Huston
"There's one particular item, a spare part or subsystem for the space station, that they'd like us to carry on this mission, and that cargo element is going to pace the launch and it's running a bit later than previously expected," Thompson said.
Orbital ATK officials said in June they could be ready to launch the next Antares rocket before the end of the summer, with liftoff then targeted for Sept. 12.
The launch date has been rescheduled for Oct. 11, according to Sam Scimemi, director for the International Space Station program at NASA Headquarters. Scimemi briefed members of the NASA Advisory Council's human exploration and operations committee on the station's status in late July.
DeMauro said the Cygnus spacecraft, which comes in two major pieces, is nearly ready for the flight this fall, named OA-8 in Orbital ATK's mission sequence. The ship's pressurized cargo module, transported from its Thales Alenia Space factory in Turin, Italy, is at Wallops, and the Cygnus service module for the OA-8 mission has completed testing at Orbital ATK's manufacturing facility in Dulles, Virginia, and is ready for the trip to Wallops launch site, he said.
Thompson said Thursday that the OA-8 launch delay makes it unlikely the company can fit two more station cargo flights this year. The next one, OA-9, is expected to lift off in the first quarter of 2018, and DeMauro said the Italian-built cargo module for that Cygnus spacecraft is already at Wallops, too.
Three of Orbital ATK's last four Cygnus flights have lifted off on United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets as engineers redesigned the Antares first stage propulsion system in the wake of a launch failure in October 2014. The first Antares launch with new Russian-made RD-181 engines last October went well, officials said, increasing the weight of cargo that can be lofted by the rocket.
The earlier version of the Antares could send an "enhanced" Cygnus spacecraft — flying with a lengthened cargo module — packed with up to 5,950 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of supplies to the space station. Engineers initially predicted the upgraded Antares could lift up to 7,050 pounds (3,200 kilograms) of cargo and experiments, but the redesigned rocket performed better than expected, and the OA-8 mission will be capable of hauling up to 7,385 pounds (3,350 kilograms) of payloads to the space station, according to Kurt Eberly, the Antares program manager at Orbital ATK.
"We've done a detailed data review from all the data on that mission, and it was a very clean mission," Eberly said in a June press briefing. "Very good performance. We got a little more energy out of the first stage and the second stage than we were counting on. We always put a little margin in, and it turns out we can release a lot of that margin, and that's helping us achieve some of these higher performance levels."
The last Antares rocket launch in October 2016 marked the first flight of the redesigned first stage with new RD-181 main engines. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
By the time Orbital ATK launches its 11th cargo mission, a flight scheduled no earlier than December 2018, officials said the Antares/Cygnus combination will be able to deliver more than 7,700 pounds (3,500 kilograms) of logistics and provisions to the space station per launch.
The new RD-181 engines produce more thrust than the Antares rocket's previous AJ26 engines, and they burn their kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants more efficiently.
Eberly said mission designers took a conservative approach on the Antares launch last October, the first with RD-181 engines.
"We flew to a delta velocity threshold," Eberly said. "When we hit that, we shut down the engines. We had a lot of fuel left in the tanks. Now, we're just going to move that threshold a little higher and burn more of the fuel in the first stage. At that point in the flight regime, the acceleration is pretty high because the stage is pretty light. Most of the propellant is gone, so you actually pick up quite a bit of performance by burning just a few more seconds into that propellant residual in the tanks."
NASA awarded Orbital ATK — then called Orbital Sciences — its first commercial resupply contract alongside SpaceX in December 2008. The space agency sel ected the companies to ferry equipment to the space station after the space shuttle's retirement.
Each company has suffered one launch failure while attempting to deliver supplies to the station.
NASA asked for bids again in 2014 for contracts to meet the station's logistic's needs from 2019 through 2024, and again chose Orbital ATK and SpaceX. The agency added Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser spaceplane as a third cargo transportation provider. Each company is guaranteed at least six missions under the new cargo contract.
DeMauro said Orbital ATK's future missions will give NASA flexibility in choosing what type of equipment it needs to haul to the orbital research outpost.
File photo of a Cygnus spacecraft arriving at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA
Starting in 2019, station managers can pick between three different types of Cygnus resupply missions.
"The first mission type is a pressurized cargo mission on Antares, very similar to what we're flying on OA-8 to OA-11," DeMauro said in a July 11 interview. "Those will have a little bit more cargo capacity, but it's an Antares-based mission.
"The second mission type is an Atlas-based mission," he said. "It's still a pressurized cargo mission, but it has even more cargo. We included that as an option for NASA just so they could optimize what they wanted in terms of cargo delivery from our system."
The Antares missions will continue to lift off from Virginia, while future Atlas 5 launches with Cygnus cargo carriers will depart from Cape Canaveral. Thales Alenia Space would build a bigger version of the Cygnus pressurized cargo module for the Atlas 5 flights, DeMauro said.
"The third mission type is an unpressurized cargo mission, and that's based on Antares," DeMauro said. "So two of the three are Antares-based and one is Atlas-based, and we included that Atlas-based mission (option) just to give NASA the flexibility for a larger pressurized cargo delivery."
Orbital ATK's concept for the unpressurized cargo system would involve removing the Cygnus pressurized cabin from the service module and adding a platform to hold experiments and spare parts that will go outside the space station. Many of those components are the size of a coffee table and are relocated from cargo ships to the station with the aid of robotic arms.
"You can think of it as having various shelving and strongback structures to be able to carry those big ORUs (Orbital Replacement Units) up inside an Antares," DeMauro said.
NASA has authorized the first of the six Cygnus flights planned from 2019 through 2014. Named OA-12, that mission will launch on an Antares booster fr om Wallops Island with pressurized cargo.
"We have six missions that have been contracted for on CRS-2," said Frank Culbertson, a former astronaut and president of Orbital ATK's space systems group. "The first one has been given a go-ahead for activity, so we are doing long-lead purchasing, beginning the process to ... start building the structure. That one should launch in, we hope, 2019."



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Ракета Антарес только для запусков Сигнуса будет использоваться?  Никаких других заказов найти не удалось!?

Salo

После сертификации может использоваться NASA.
"Были когда-то и мы рысаками!!!"

Apollo13

https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-18-016.pdf 
ЦитироватьAUDIT OF COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICES TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 

April 26, 2018

Искандер

#2116
Ну, да, Dream Chaser на F-9 будет логичней. Только вот потянет ли F-9 эту байду  с возвратом ступени хоть на баржу? Потому как FH уж слишком.
А вот для NewGlenn  очень органичная ПН.
Получается, что Orbital с Cygnus самый беспроблемный вариант для СRS-ll. А Dragon-2 по сути ничего особо полезного не привнесет, кроме своей большей навароченности и стоимости.
Aures habent et non audient, oculos habent et non videbunt

tnt22

ЦитироватьChris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 40 мин. назад

FEATURE ARTICLE:
Orbital ATK looks ahead to CRS2 Cygnus flights, Antares on the commercial market -

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/06/orbital-atk-crs2-cygnus-flights-antares-commercial/ ...

- By Chris Gebhardt (@ChrisG_NSF)

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triage

В конце статьи что ракеты для разных рынков. Жалко не уточнили про резервный план на случай прекращения поставок двигателей первой ступени; ну ладно - и самой первой ступени.

triage

Цитировать http://engine.space/press/pressnews/2619/
14 ДЕКАБРЯ 2018

12 декабря три двигателя РД181 доставлены американскому заказчику – компании «Orbital Sciences Corporation».
Ранее 5 декабря представители компании подписали формуляры на двигатели.

Данная приемка является второй в 2018 году.  В июне этого года заказчикам были переданы два двигателя РД181.