[FPSPACE] joint European-Russian vehicle abandoned?

[agzak at optonline.net]

The latest on the ACTS project:

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz_acts_history.html#bremen_2008_10

Stay tuned for more.

Anatoly Zak


----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Oberg <jeoberg at comcast.net>
Date: Monday, September 1, 2008 3:58 pm
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] joint European-Russian vehicle abandoned?
To: agzak at optonline.net

> Anatoly, thanks for keeping an eye on these trends and describing 
> them.
> Jim
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <agzak at optonline.net>
> To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 10:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] joint European-Russian vehicle abandoned?
> 
> 
> > Bart:
> >
> > If you followed Russian aerospace forums, you could probably feel 
> strong 
> > opposition to the ACTS project and to the cooperation with the 
> West in 
> > general. Based on what I heard privately, it is likely that the 
> similar 
> > "anti-cooperation" party exists within the Russian space 
> industry. As 
> > Russian economy recovers and the overall political climate 
> between Russia 
> > and the West worsens, it is not a surprise that "do it yourself" 
> attitude 
> > would be growing in Russia and the international cooperation 
> would seen as 
> > an unnecessary burden. Krikalev's interview probably reflects that.
> >
> > I tried to summarize all these conflicting political trends and 
> technical 
> > considerations on these pages:
> >
> > http://www.russianspaceweb.com/russia_2000_2010.html
> >
> > http://www.russianspaceweb.com/acts.html
> >
> > http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz_acts_history.html
> >
> > http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ard.html
> >
> >
> > Anatoly Zak
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Bart Hendrickx <bhen at scarlet.be>
> > Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008 5:23 am
> > Subject: [FPSPACE] joint European-Russian vehicle abandoned?
> > To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
> >
> >> Speaking in an interview with RIA Novosti on the occasion of his 
> 50th>> birthday a couple of days ago, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov 
> said the
> >> following:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "As for the new space transportation system, not so long ago the
> >> leaders of
> >> the Russian Space Agency were thinking that it had to be developed
> >> jointlywith Europe. Now it has turned out that the Europeans don't
> >> want to develop
> >> the ship together with Russia. While earlier we had been told 
> that the
> >> European Space Agency wanted to jointly develop a new type of ship,
> >> althoughwe ourselves weren't too sure what exactly we wanted,  now
> >> it has become
> >> clear that each will have to do something on their own.  We just
> >> have to
> >> clearly understand that and move on."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> This would seem to contradict  other, more optimistic reports in
> >> recentweeks and months on the joint European-Russian Crew Space
> >> TransportationSystem (CSTS).  What's going on? Is he just
> >> expressing a personal opinion or
> >> has ESA decided to abandon CSTS?
> >>
> >>
> >> By the way, Krikalyov, a veteran of six space missions with a
> >> record 803
> >> days in orbit under his belt, is hoping to make yet another 
> mission,>> preferably on the improved Soyuz-TMA that should make 
> its debut
> >> next year.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Bart Hendrickx
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> 
> 

Anatoly Zak
http://www.russianspaceweb.com