Russia Built Its New Cosmodrome Wrong
Russia’s New Rocket Won’t Fit in Its New Cosmodrome, Moscow Times
“Work at Russia’s new $ 3 billion spaceport in the Far East has ground to a halt after a critical piece of infrastructure was discovered to have been built to the wrong dimensions, and would not fit the latest version of the country’s Soyuz rocket, a news report said.”
– Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome Has Big Problems, earlier post
– More Negative Progress at Vostochny Cosmodrome, earlier post
– Vostochny Cosmodrome First Launch Slips 3 Years, earlier post
– Man Driving Diamond-encrusted Mercedes Caught Embezzling Cosmodrome Funds, earlier post
How about the test stand to nowhere?
http://nasawatch.com/archiv…
http://www.washingtonpost.c…
Uh how about, NASA builds a huge testing facility for a rocket that had been cancelled for years. This happened, recently
Or spends a cool billion testing J2-X engine and shelves it shortly after. the list is long
I wouldn’t be so sure about that…
http://www.washingtonpost.c…
That’s more congress to blame, than NASA.
Touche
Looks big enough to me!
Looks like it has a nasty black mold problem.
How soon we forget how Boeing’s subcontractor forgot to reinforce the floor on the SLS Vertical Assembly Center. Whole thing had to be rebuilt after the Administrator had rolled it out. Used up nearly all the schedule slack in the program.
http://science.slashdot.org…
I suspect Odyssey2020 is making a joke. I believe we’re looking a picture of the long-abandoned Buran hangar.
Whoops.
No problem at Kourou, though, right?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.u…
I think they thought the blueprints were full scale.
I expect it was some combination of using rocket specs that were out of date and the contractors thinking they could make it a bit smaller and shave off some more money for themselves, with a plan to be gone with the cash before anyone found out.
Putin’s Soyuz (USSR) is vastly more corrupt than the one in which he grew up, and that’s saying something.
Regarding corruption ….
You are mistaken!
Since the Government’s attention to such objects is very large and there is a report on the construction of each coin!
Incidentally, judging by how you knock out the money to the United States for military development, and then the money spent is not clear on that, and there are no results and developments themselves do not have …
That’s the real official corruption, with those at the highest level!
Suffice it to remember your F-35 which cost taxpayers incredible amount, and as a result, the aircraft loses even obsolete airplane F-16 …
I was talking with someone from Ukraine, worked briefly in Soviet rocket industry. He said back then the process for launching rockets is three independent groups assess and review systems. All three had to conclude systems are ready to go. Right now he said, “it’s as if it depends on who is paid off and when” resulting in failed launches and other blunders.