Spiral stolen by Americans will be sent to the ISS

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Sierra Nevada, an American corporation specializing in the development of commercial orbital delivery vehicles and microsatellites, has announced the start of the defense process for its latest Dream Shaser spacecraft.





In February of this year, the US aerospace agency NASA approved technical project Dream Chaser and set a date for its first flight to the International Space Station - it should take place in 2020. This flight will be the first for the spaceplane, and its very first cargo delivery for the ISS. In addition to the main goal, it is planned to conduct a series of tests of the device outside the Earth’s atmosphere.

At the moment, part of the aircraft’s hull has already been assembled, but the final assembly date remains unknown. The maximum take-off weight of Dream Chaser is 11,3 tons, the wingspan is 7 meters, and the body length is nine. The device will be delivered to orbit via disposable launch vehicles such as Delta IV, Atlas V and Falcon Heavy.

The device will be able to deliver 5,5 tons of payload to the ISS and return up to 2 tons of cargo back to Earth.

It is worth recalling that Dream Chaser was created on the basis of Soviet developments like Cosmos-1374. It is believed that the Americans were able to construct this device thanks to the secret documents on the design of the Spiral orbital plane that fell into their hands in the 90s.
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  1. +3
    April 23 2018 22: 59
    Yes, a lot of Soviet secrets and technologies went to the Westerners (and not only them) from the collapsed and disordered Union!
    Secrets, paid for in due time with considerable sweat and blood of millions of Soviet workers, and suddenly profaned by the Bad Boys for cheap "jam and cookies" ...
  2. +1
    April 24 2018 08: 11
    The wino Yeltsin and his gang squandered the acquired in the Soviet period.
    All was sold for a penny or just stolen.
    1. +1
      21 August 2018 21: 50
      So they also erected a monument in E-burg, and the whole building was dedicated to the Museum of Russian idiocy, where children are taken at the expense of the Ministry of Education to show them that they are Russian and should be until the end of their short days. And the crowd, chewing joyfully compost of brown soda chips, approves.
  3. -1
    April 24 2018 09: 42
    Come on, "stolen". In the 90s, a whole line stood at the offices of American specialists who came to Russia to deal with the Soviet legacy, from those who wanted to sell "military secrets" and "developments" of the collapsed USSR at least for something ...
  4. 0
    April 24 2018 13: 53
    Knock this thing down.
  5. +1
    April 24 2018 15: 48
    And where are these creatures that sold our secrets now, why aren't they eliminated?
    1. 0
      April 24 2018 18: 03
      What do you think? wink
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  6. 0
    April 25 2018 07: 53
    Not stolen, but loved
  7. +2
    April 25 2018 23: 27
    Let's remember the infamous Chernomyrdin-Gora deal on the sale of Soviet weapons-grade uranium (500 tons!) ... worth TRILLION dollars (according to international estimates) in the United States ... for several tens of millions of dollars?
    Only for this crime the guilty are still not punished ... and everyone has already forgotten about it!
    1. +1
      21 August 2018 21: 55
      But this is not true. No trillions of sold diluted (slave) uranium are worth up to 4%. Moreover, the Americans unscrewed the flippers of the Caucasians and forced them to sell for Russia’s penny the “waste” of nuclear processing of uranium - 238, which reduced the concentration of uranium-235 to 4%. It was planned to earn 10 billion in operations, but earned 17 billion due to rising prices. Uranium in the world market is not so expensive.
  8. 0
    April 27 2018 18: 04
    Vile spotty Misha very, very shit on RUSSIA !!!
  9. kig
    +2
    1 May 2018 13: 06
    Do not assume partners are dumber than us. History shows that the same ideas tend to arise in different heads and countries. Example: Me-109 and almost simultaneously with it appeared Yak and MiG.
  10. 0
    8 May 2018 22: 37
    "Dream Chaser was created on the basis of Soviet developments such as Kosmos-1374" - I read the comments and wonder how people believe in fairy tales. Who of those present here knows what Cosmos-1374 is, saw drawings, drawings, etc. - none. And why? But because it's secret! But, an excuse to talk about what you don't know. Don't forget the states have successfully launched satellites to all planets in the solar system and beyond. The idea of ​​a reusable shuttle was developed in the United States, and then there was Buran who flew off and died. The ratio of Nobel Prize winners is 254 in the United States against 38 in Russia, with 38 taking into account the USSR. And even if they stole the idea (which I very much doubt) they brought it to life, and they buried it in Russia. And the money was spent on "Iskander", "Armata" and other junk that nobody needs except hurray for patriots.