Saturday, August 23, 2014

Roscosmos will send into orbit “cleaner» – BFM.Ru

The device will be removed from orbit served their satellites and boosters

The Russian Space Agency is developing a machine to clean the geostationary orbit debris. This was reported by “Izvestia».

It is expected that work on the creation of “liquidators” such is the business name of the space, “cleaner” – will cost 10.8 billion rubles. Design should begin in 2018, and by 2025 the machine should be ready to start. Parameters of the device contained in the draft Federal Space Program: weight maintenance unit – 4 tons, lifetime – 10 years in the implementation of at least 20 cycles of removal, the number of consecutive deleted boosters and spacecraft in the same cycle – 10 pieces, removing the cycle – to 6 months.

The problem of space debris is particularly relevant in the geostationary orbit, located at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers above the sea level around the equator. GSO satellites operate communications and broadcasting, it is the most commercially in demand. Space cleaner can either push the collected debris into a higher orbit, where it does not hurt anyone, or to flood it in the so-called graveyard of spaceships in the Pacific Ocean near Christmas Island.

Among the possible development machine Office calls RSC “Energia”, Khrunichev, Lavochkin, ISS Reshetnev. The problem itself is considered to be highly complex. Most likely it will be the executor of the company, which has extensive experience in rendezvous and docking in orbit.

According to the American agencies US Space Surveillance Network, now in low Earth orbit rotates 16.2 thousand objects, collision which could lead to the elimination of spacecraft. Additional difficulty in cleaning the debris is that when you try to eliminate it can form fragments, each of which would constitute a threat to operational spacecraft.

On the eve of the Russian Space Agency experts said the launch of the Russian carrier rocket “Soyuz -ST B “from Kourou in French Guiana. Rocket into orbit two European navigation satellites Galileo FOC.

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