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PLANNED RUSSIAN SPACE MISSIONS IN 2017: 2017-2018: A Soyuz rocket with a Fregat upper stage to launch the first pair of a quartet of satellites from Plesetsk to study plasma within the Roy ("Swarm") project. Each 200-kilogram spacecraft would be based on the Karat platform with plasma-electric engines and carry around 60 kilograms of payload. Each spacecraft would carry a single magnetometer boom and four booms for measurement of Earth's electric field. 2017: A Dnepr rocket with a Krechet upper stage to launch Ukrainian Selena mini-orbiter toward the Moon. Developed by KB Yuzhnoe, Selena would be the first spacecraft in post-Soviet Ukraine designed to go beyond the Earth orbit. (Plans as of November 2011.) Ukrainian plans for developing a lunar station had been publicized during the crisis with the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft and, possibly, were timed to facilitate contacts with Russia on a potential cooperative project in deep space. Ukraine's previous plans to launch a 300-kilogram lunar orbiter on the Zenit rocket stalled due to lack of funds. However, by scaling down the project to fit into a converted ballistic missile and, possibly, joining forces with Russia, could make the proposal affordable. It could be speculated, that after the Phobos-Grunt fiasco, Russian space strategists could be under pressure to fly an inexpensive test mission into deep-space before returning to ambitious and expensive planetary missions. 2017: The Baiterek launch complex in Baikonur to host its first mission of the Angara rocket. (As of end of 2010. As of 2008, the first Angara mission from Baikonur was promised in 2012; by 2009, it slipped to 2014 and by 2011 to 2017.). 2017: Russia to launch the 2.5-ton Mars-NET mission, carrying 10 15-kilogram landers and three 55-kilogram penetrators to be deployed around the surface of Mars for long-duration global weather studies on the Red Planet. (As of 2009, the launch of the mission was promised in 2016 (388), however by 2011, it slipped to 2017.)
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This page is compiled by Anatoly Zak; Last update: November 11, 2011 Page editor: Alain Chabot; Last edit: April 30, 2011 All rights reserved |
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The standard MKA bus would be used as a platform for the quartet of Roy satellites. Copyright © 2010 Anatoly Zak
An artist rendering illustrating the Mars NET spacecraft releasing one of its multiple landers onto the surface of the Red Planet. Credit: IKI
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