Putin aims to have Russian space station by 2027

3 years ago by Nemeski to c/space

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the first segment of Russia's new orbital station, which Moscow sees as the next logical development in space exploration after the International Space Station (ISS), should be put into operation by 2027.

ZeroCool 42 points 3 years ago

LOL yeah, and Ukraine was going to fall in 3 days.

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ThePantser 22 points 3 years ago

So they plan to invade whatever station is up there at that time and try to claim as their own?

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MushuChupacabra 20 points 3 years ago

Sadly, most of the skilled workers needed for this project were pressed into military service, and got blown up in Ukraine.

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TWeaK 11 points 3 years ago

Or sent to prison for collaborating, like that scientist who worked on commercial hypersonic airplanes.

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Aux 7 points 3 years ago

Or just packed their shit and ran away as far as they could. A lot of great IT professionals I know started leaving Russia after 2014. After 2022 literally everyone I know left Russia. Putin has fucked Russia real hard...

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LordWiggle 14 points 3 years ago

Nice aim. Also nice aim to take Ukraine in 3 days. I aim to be successful in 2027 but we all know I'm going to continue to be sad, alone and a faillure.

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KISSmyOS 12 points 3 years ago

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c0mbatbag3l 12 points 3 years ago

Best we can do is Russian ground station.

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Valmond 5 points 3 years ago

Established a planetary station on earth.

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Rocketpoweredgorilla 10 points 3 years ago

That'll be the day tank turrets can fly... oh wait...

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threelonmusketeers 1 point 3 years ago

You'd still need to do a circularization burn.

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Rocketpoweredgorilla 1 point 3 years ago

They're so efficient they do the burn on the way up before they even need to.

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Sylver 10 points 3 years ago

Hahahaha…… oh wait, he’s serious..?

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perviouslyiner 6 points 3 years ago

"let me laugh even harder!"

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TheOneWithTheHair 5 points 3 years ago

He plans on Putin it up there.

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emergencyfood 9 points 3 years ago

The ISS is ageing and Tiangong is still quite small, so this is badly needed. Unfortunately in the current political climate it is unlikely that Western countries will want to join this project, so Russia might have issues funding the entire station.

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gravitas_deficiency 14 points 3 years ago

Not to mention, they’re gonna have a hell of a time building anything like that without western electronic components, because I don’t see that faucet being turned back on anytime soon.

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Valmond 4 points 3 years ago

To be fair they'd only need -70 -80 tech, but I don't see that happening with that tech either because they have become too corrupt as a country, russians do no longer believe in the glory/superiority of Russia.

And obviously, a space station from the eighties wouldn't help much ofc.

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neme 6 points 3 years ago

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AA5B 5 points 3 years ago

That’s kind of the point. Russia already announced withdrawing from ISS and said they would build their own. The Soviets did build a couple small space stations back in the day, leading up to ISS so in theory they just need to dust off the plans and gather any spare parts. Even if that was it, I can’t see this happening

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Valmond 4 points 3 years ago

Okay Igor, where are the plans?

Igor?

Oh yeah I sent Igor to gulag, and then to Ukraine.

Vanya, where are the plans?

Vanya?

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emergencyfood 3 points 3 years ago

If I remember correctly, the Soviet space programme used to always build a backup. If the original worked, the backup would be maintained and then used on another mission, or used to train cosmonauts. So Mir's backup became the ISS's core module, and so on. So they should have some modules already built, and of course they have launch vehicles. The problem will be funding.

Anyway, NASA + ESA + Japan + Canada are planning another space station, but in lunar orbit.

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Aux 4 points 3 years ago

It is most likely everything was scavenged and sold. There are videos of a current state of Buran, it's pretty much a skeleton of itself as everything valuable got stolen.

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magnetosphere 9 points 3 years ago

Yeah, good luck with that.

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echodot 6 points 3 years ago

How many holes will it have?

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ubermeisters 2 points 3 years ago

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TWeaK 1 point 3 years ago

Regardless of how many holes, I'm sure they will still be round, and we'll still be trying to put square-shaped astronauts through them.

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eran_morad 5 points 3 years ago

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ShaunaTheDead 5 points 3 years ago

Something tells me Putin won't be around anymore by 2027...

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Inmate 5 points 3 years ago

Or someone could just colorize and upscale that photo of Komarov's charred corpse and call it a day before anyone gets hurt

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kokesh 4 points 3 years ago

I hope he is man enough and files on the inaugural mission

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MeanEYE 4 points 3 years ago

Yeah, kind of poor statement considering track record of Soyuz.

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slurpeesoforion 4 points 3 years ago

Ah. Planting the trees who's shade he'll never enjoy.

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awwwyissss 4 points 3 years ago

More like "election coming up soon, need to look like a strong, innovative leader of a successful country"

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Breezy 4 points 3 years ago

Does he have enough money for that? Or might he expect to be rich as soon as he plunders the war torn ukraine.

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MeanEYE 3 points 3 years ago

It's not the question of money as much as ban on high tech stuff.

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TerminalViscosity 3 points 3 years ago

Just imagine the size of the crater it will leave on the moon.

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Muffi 2 points 3 years ago

Missing the target by a distance roughly equal to the combined diameter of all planets in our solar system would be very on brand for Russian tech.

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tryplot 3 points 3 years ago

that's assuming he still has a country in 2027

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Perfide 1 point 3 years ago

That's assuming Putin is still alive in 2027.

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Beetschnapps 3 points 3 years ago

From where will it all launch? Where does the technology come from if they still cannot produce in house? Who will pay?

Is he going to “invade” a Chinese station and call it a victory?

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perviouslyiner 1 point 3 years ago

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Talaraine 3 points 3 years ago

Heheh they'll need a full complement of crew to do nothing but stick their fingers in leaks.

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Semi-Hemi-Demigod 2 points 3 years ago

They’re gonna need to steal a looooot of washing machines

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AncientFutureNow 1 point 3 years ago

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BaroqueInMind 1 point 3 years ago

Rewrote the headline to predict what actually will happen: Putin's final living order before he committed suicide due to shame of losing in Ukraine aims to have Russian space debris & cosmonaut corpses in decaying orbit by 2027

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