patchfree Mar 5 Aoû 2008 - 23:44
L'info en direct du site de Khrunitchev:
The Khrunichev Space Center is shipping the mockup of KSLV-I Stage 1 to South Korea. Khrunichev is building KSLV-I (Korean Space Launch Vehicle) Stage 1 for the Naro Space Center.
Today the container with the mockup and ground support equipment will depart for Ulianovsk by train. It will be reloaded on board the aircraft to be flown to the South Korean port city of Pusan. The mockup will continue its journey from there by sea to the Naro Space Center on the Oenaro Island where a launch center is being built.
The container is 36 meters long. It will travel on board the heavy-lift AN-124-100 “Ruslan” operated by the Russian Polyot carrier. Polyot, an authorized carrier of the Federal Space Agency, specializes in heavy and/or oversized cargoes.
Theplane with the mockup on board is scheduled to take off from the Vostochny Airport of Ulianovsk on August the 9th. At the Naro Space Center, Russian and Korean specialists will use the mockup for a series of acceptance tests involving ground integration and launch facilities.
These efforts are covered by the bi-lateral inter-governmental agreement on space exploration between Russia and S.Korea signed in October 2004. The agreement calls for joint development of the S.Korean space launcher complex including the KSLV-I small-lift booster.
KSLV-I Stage 1 will be developed by the Khrunichev Space Center while Stage 2 and payload will be designed and built in S.Korea. The S.Korean customer is the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). The Russian side is represented by the Khrunichev Space Center which has overall responsibility for the project, NPO Energomash (Stage 1 propulsion system) and KBTM which designs the ground facilities.