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Dear, respected corporate employees, veterans, our colleagues, friends and like-minded persons!
Dear, respected corporate employees, veterans, our colleagues,
friends and like-minded persons! The April 12, 1961 orbital flight accomplished by Vostok manned spacecraft with Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin onboard, which had been the natural result of the painstaking efforts made by our enterprise's team, as well as the skilled engineers, scientists, the military, workers and employees from industrial enterprises, the national research and military agencies, opened up new boundless opportunities for our civilization in development of the universe. Launches of the world's first artificial earth satellites, the pioneer orbital human space flights, developing of new space research and application directions, among which are the launches of the pioneer scientific earth satellites, automatic stations towards the Moon, Venus, Mars, the national Molniya communication satellites, and Zenit observation satellites had heralded a new space age in the human history. The forty three years have passed since the historical event of launching the world's first Vostok manned spacecraft, during which the mankind switched from infrequent space flights to regular on-orbit service. Space communication and navigation, environmental monitoring, satellites of weather observation, monitoring, warning and a lot of other things - all constitutes an integral part of modern society vital activities. During all those years elapsed, our team was not fully satisfied with the results achieved, had been in the process of looking for and finding the solutions to the most critical and key problems, determining space high-tech directions, whether it be the development and a 15-year operational use of the Mir manned orbital station, the pioneer international research center in near-earth space; the development and pioneer launches of the Energia-Buran reusable space system, or the development and start of the Rocket Segment utilization under the Sea Launch Project, the International Space Station Russian Segment, a new generation of the Yamal communication satellites. All the programs implemented were based upon the long-standing experience acquired by RSC Energia's team, which had always maintained the best traditions of OKB-1 established by S.P. Korolev, to which contributed greatly further unique developments. As our scientific and technical potential continues to develop and improve and our organization's specialists are known for their highest skill, it becomes possible today to set yet more complicated tasks in the near and long-term perspective. First of all, these tasks deal with the development and manufacture in the immediate future of a new generation of the dedicated satellites based upon universal space platform Viktoria, the first models of which were certified for flight as part of the Yamal-100 and Yamal-200 communication satellites. We in collaboration with the colleagues from GNP RKTs Ts SKB - Progress are currently in the process of designing of space-purpose rocket Onega, which is supposed to be a thorough modernization of highly reliable Soyuz rocket based upon the Korolev's Rocket R-7 - the famous rocket created by the team of the well-known OKB-1. The efforts are currently under way to create reusable manned six-seat spacecraft Kliper, which is going to oust 3-seat Soyuzes in the next decade. Also the work is in progress to develop advanced large-scale space antennas for new-generation satellites. Within the framework of the Russian and foreign partners we propose to develop the Rocket-Space Complex 'Land Launch', which is supposed to function as a continuation of the Sea Launch Project at Baikonur Cosmodrome. Also the studies are being conducted and design work is in progress to create the national Orbital Manned Complex and its related transport-engineering support system based upon the Kliper spacecraft and a new orbital transfer vehicle Parom. In addition, we can purpose the rational design solutions for interplanetary manned complex intended to perform flights to Mars. Of no less importance are our studies of new approaches to the traditional design solutions and the global problems, involving the Earth protection from collision with large heavenly bodies (asteroids, comets), exploration of the Moon, disposal in space of especially hazardous radioactive waste of nuclear industry, illumination of near-arctic regions from near-earth orbit, electric power generation in space and its transmission to the Earth. Looking into these problems by the earth men is the matter of the foreseeable rather than distant future. And, finally, our corporation is engaged in designing and manufacturing if products having nothing to do with space industry and yet meeting the world's highest standards in quality, which indicates that our team is able to master and introduce modern high technologies within the shortest possible time into the production of the consumer goods, which are in great demand both in the Russian market and abroad, including prosthetic - orthopedic products, cooking processors, vacuum cleaners, water filters, hydrogen power plants, etc. In view of the occupational holiday coming on-the Cosmonautics Day, which has become, as a matter of fact, the national holiday, we extend our sincere thanks to the Corporation's veterans and employees for their devotion to the cause, their selfless work, which make it possible for our Corporation as the complicated scientific-production complex and the Russian leading enterprise in rocket and space industry to continue and develop its efforts to create and use modern high technologies, while maintaining its leadership in cosmonautics not only in our country, but worldwide as well. We express our profound gratitude to the teams of the industry-wide enterprises and organizations, our foreign partners, who took part and are now participating in the efforts under the complex space projects. With all our heart we extend our thanks to those, who understand the existing problems of today's cosmonautics and support our efforts aimed to resolve them, including the problems we encounter when implementing different joint programs and projects. We wish the employees and veterans of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, our counterparts, friends and like-minded persons good health, achievements in their creative work, happieness, success, well-being! Best wishes on this festive occasion, dear friends! Management of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia. --------------------------- Jacques :-) www.spacepatches.info |
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