The Decline of Roscosmos

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[billsmith]

Back in the early 90's I worked for a company that was in St. Petersburg. Since every outside business has to be a 50/50 joint venture with a Russian, this company was partners with the St. Petersburg Police department. Thus, who we had to deal with on that side was Putin as he was the deputy mayor of St. Petersburg. After dealing with him in person and the overall outcome of this business venture, it comes as no suprise as to what is going on right now. I suggest reading "Welcome to Putingrad" and you'll see what I'm talking about as I lives through this in person.

[SOR-]

Man dropped the hardest American rocket and aerospace edit at the end and acted like it was nothing 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🗿🚀

[okankyoto]

Minor correction: The Antares uses two RD-191 engines each of which is 1/2 of an RD-180 (essentially equivalent but the RD-180 is/was under license). The war has also destroyed the factories in Ukraine where the first stage tanks were built. Since the video, NG has partnered with Firefly to replace the entire first stage of Antares.

An interesting aside is that in the 90s, the US space program and US state department specifically paid extra money after the fall of the USSR to fund the Russian space program because it was considered important to ensure such a proud program would continue. To that end, the US paid for the completion and launch of two MIR modules, and paid for the production of the Zarya module for the ISS (this is operated by Roscosmos but remains owned by the US). After Russia cancelled 1/2 of their ISS segment, they now buy power directly from the US segment.

[L_Train]

Russia did successfully send three cosmonauts to the ISS just yesterday. Everything appeared to be cordial when the entered the module.

[migmit]

A little bit of explanation here: Rogozin's tweet about Scott Kelly is a bad play of words. The word "skot" in russian literally means "livestock", and is frequently used as a derogative.

[MartinJames]

The main Roscosmos launch site (aka cosmodrome) isn't in Russia at all. It's Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Russia has access to it by treaty and a lease on it until 2050. Their other cosmodrome at Plesetsk in Arkhangelsk is an old ICBM site and of only limited use due to lack of maintenance and, crucially, its high latitude. The plan is to build a new cosmodrome in Russia, to replace Baikonur, at Tsiolkovsky, near the Chinese border. But what of that now? How can it be paid for? The money not frozen in the Central Bank's currency reserves outside Russia is mostly now sailing away, rumoured to be heading for the Maldives in the form of oligarch's yachts. The destination is only rumoured because they've all turned off their AISs to frustrate tracking. That's illegal for vessels of their size.

[scyz]

This was amazing to watch. I don't do Twitter and have not heard about any of this on my news sources down here in the US. Most coverage has been about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Nothing about negative comments made by the head of the Russian Space Agency since that invasion. I do remember hearing something about US "broom sticks" though. So now I know how that was part of a bigger story. Thanks again for this content!

[SteamingCupofReason]

A really great video Kevin. Thanks for the great work!

[Nidhogg]

The NK-33 hasn't been used on Antares since the Orb-3 incident in 2014. Antares has used the RD-181 since. A new first stage for it is being developed by Firefly.

[NinjaMonkeyPrime]

Very nice summary of current events and providing the history that explains it today.

[yemo]

China kind of eat Russia's lunch with that rover landing lol.

[jtveg]

The sad thing I think is that Rogozin probably has to say the things he does in order to keep his position. Anyway this could actually be a blessing for NASA and the private launch companies.

[fhmconsulting]

The only thing statement missing from Rogozin's twitter war was "Make Russia Great Again" (by sending it back to 1962) However, even without Ukraine, Russia was on a diminishing window with the troubling major\minor problems cropping up with the ISS Russian program. Joking about letting the ISS de-orbit is not funny when your latest module literally tried to do it not that long ago. Rogozin is a clown but when the main criteria in Russia to get anywhere is unswerving loyalty to your autocratic "leader" he is just another member of the clown cabinet.

[jimsmith]

At 2:00, why is the head of the Russian space agency shaking hands with Forest Gump?

[Symplarify]

Thanks for the quality work (as usual). Hope the brief hiatus served you well!! Glad to see you got two new videos up!

[Kualinar]

Russia have only two working space launchers. The U.S.A. have nearly 10, all more modern, efficient, mostly reusable, and, in the long run, cheaper and more sustainable. Then, there are the launchers from some other countries. ALL of those are competing for the same market as Roscosmos.

[colinritchie]

Excellent, one of your best ever videos

[ravenvalentine]

'' but space is fake and the earth is flat '' they will cry and why oh why lol
love your channel man, i was curious about wtf is going with Russia and the US regarding the ISS

[xenomorphphantom]

Maybe now the ESA will stop delaying the Ariane series new rockets, they are SORELY needed since fifteen years ago!

[Forest_Fifer]

And Oneweb just signed a contract for launch services with SpaceX