RKK Energija heavy lift rocket "Sodruzhestvo"

[Michel Van]

According the german News magazine "Der Spiegel"
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/sodrushestwo-russen-wollen-gewaltige-mondrakete-bauen-a-851013.html

Plans RKK Energija a join venture with Ukraine and Kazakhstan
to build a new heavy lift rocket called Sodruzhestvo with payload of 70 tons in low earth orbit
Head of RKK Energija Vitali Lopota explane last monday in Moscow
that Sodruzhestvo will use technology developed in 1980s for Buran program


means this is resurrection of the Energia rocket ?

 

[flateric]

means this is resurrection of the Energia rocket ?

just Block A of Energia (if this what-if will ever be realized)
Lopota says that central block will be also Lox/Kerosene and that first and second stage 'will be configured of five Blocks'
http://www.interfax.ru/politics/txt.asp?id=261348


discussion on NK Forum
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13135&start=435&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13172&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

 

[Michel Van]

BIG THX for info, flateric

 

[Michel Van]

i used Google for Translate
Interfax news
http://translate.google.be/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.interfax.ru%2Fpolitics%2Ftxt.asp%3Fid%3D261348&act=url


Russian NK Forum translation #1
http://translate.google.be/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru%2FphpBB2%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ft%3D13135%26start%3D435%26postdays%3D0%26postorder%3Dasc%26highlight%3D


Russian NK Forum translation #2
http://translate.google.be/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru%2FphpBB2%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ft%3D13172%26start%3D0%26postdays%3D0%26postorder%3Dasc%26highlight%3D

 

[blackstar]

There is a by now familiar pattern to these Russian announcements--they say that they are willing to build something, whether an ambitious moonbase, Mars mission, or their Energia rocket--and then they mention that somebody has to pay them to do it.