[FPSPACE] Energia going bankrupt?

[E.P. Grondine]

Considering the state that Semenov and Koptev left Energia in, I have my 
doubts about what is really going on here.

If we look at Energia and Roskosmos, Sevastyanov and Perminov put the Soyuz 
launcher on a firm path to improvement, instituted the Baykal fly-back 
booster program to lower the launch cost for Angara, and came up with 
workable architectures for manned flight to the Moon and Mars.

Undoubtedly the ESA rejection of the Klipr played a role, but ESA 
participation in the Soyuz capsule upgrade is ignored. As is the private 
money for circum-lunar flights.

My suspicion would be to look for personal corruption along with money from 
the GDFMN among Sevastyanov's opponents.  Sevastyanov was accused of 
"lunacy", but what of the "martians"?  As far as the charge of "lunacy" 
goes, it would appear that S & P left Russia in a good position to work with 
China in the 2020's.

Oh well. At least Walt Anderson is still in jail.

E.P.


>From: "Sven Grahn" <svengrahn at telia.com>
>To: "FPSPACE FPSPACE" <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
>Subject: [FPSPACE] Energia going bankrupt?
>Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:40:55 +0200
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>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/07/31/russia.space.bankruptcy.reut/index.html
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