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There is a plastic model from a company called Start of a rocket called "Hercules" (maybe Heracles.) This rocket is allegedly the Soviet design for a Mars heavy lift launcher. It has a stretched Energia core and six Energia strap-on boosters. If anybody has more information on this speculative rocket, particularly in the way of drawing and specifications, I would greatly appreciate it.
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This sounds like what some called "Energia II".
Theoretically it was capable of lifting 400,000 lbs. into LEO.
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Sorry to intervene in 2003.No data?
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OH NO PUBLIUSR, LOOK OUT!!!
...A RUSSIAN EELV-derived launch vehicle. Angara is, after all, the Russian EELV.
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Look more closely. Angara -100 is closer to Energiya HLLV. If you will look at the side by side comparison, you will see the strap-ons are full-strength four barrel Zenit RD-170s, not the 1/4 strength or less RD-191 for the standard Angara EELV
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Ahhh so its not really a derivitive rocket at all but an all-new rocket with an old name. How... expensive.
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[i]The glass is at 50% of capacity[/i]
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I find it ironic that the "Angara 100" looks like a redux of Energia, except that it's an in-line launcher now, and it uses kerosene in the core (hydrogen fuel is only used in the upper stage.)
The design looks good on paper but it's highly unlikely to be built. Even the baseline Angara, which was promised for flight by 2004, has been delayed to the 2008-9 time period and may never fly at all.
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Probably not. Here is to folks in Dubai and Brunei becoming HLLV fans.
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Angara's best hope is South Korea, as they have announced plans to license Angara technology for a domestic launcher. Only time will tell if this ever gets off the drawing boards.
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The South Korean deal will only go forward if the core technology of the angara project can be used by the military .
So the question is, can a SLV be of use against North Korea?
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Angara cores as theatre-scale ballistic missiles? No, the long lead time to launch and excessive payload would make Angara unsuitable.
[i]"The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those that do not have it." - George Bernard Shaw[/i]
[i]The glass is at 50% of capacity[/i]
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I´m thinking on a little brother of Angara, borrowing the production methods of the SLV.
On the other hand, it doesn´t really matter if a TBM is unworkable, since the main function is political. Example the R-7.
Nuno Martinho Da Cunha Cardoso
The Author of:"The Diagonal Method:An Alternative Approach To Arithmetics."
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But that doesn't make sense though. The North Koreans know a thing or two about missiles themselves, and won't be the least bit frightend of a TBM base that takes an hour to sortie their first shot... they'll just obliterate it first.
The whole concept of Angara is the opposit of what you want for a missile: LOX/Kerosene engines require too much time to prepare for flight.
[i]"The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those that do not have it." - George Bernard Shaw[/i]
[i]The glass is at 50% of capacity[/i]
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If you want to make a military missile, solid or storable liquid propellants are the way to go. Angara just isn't practical for that mission, nor is it designed for it. Besides, South Korea is a fairly peace-loving nation that wants to avoid "rocking the boat" with its nuclear-armed neighbor to the north.
It's pretty safe to say that South Korea, as a technologically advanced nation, is trying to claim its rightful place as a space-capable nation. Is a manned program in the cards? I don't see it happening in the next 20 years aside from perhaps suborbital space tourism. The Angara-based launcher is an important step in the growth of South Korea's tech sector.
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According to Mark Wade there is at least a possibility than even an Iranian missile could have a cryogenic upper stage.
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