LOL yeah, and Ukraine was going to fall in 3 days.
So they plan to invade whatever station is up there at that time and try to claim as their own?
Sadly, most of the skilled workers needed for this project were pressed into military service, and got blown up in Ukraine.
Or sent to prison for collaborating, like that scientist who worked on commercial hypersonic airplanes.
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...
Best we can do is Russian ground station.
Established a planetary station on earth.
Hahahaha…… oh wait, he’s serious..?
"let me laugh even harder!"
He plans on Putin it up there.
That'll be the day tank turrets can fly... oh wait...
You'd still need to do a circularization burn.
They're so efficient they do the burn on the way up before they even need to.
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.
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.
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.
Constantly causing brain drains will probably not help either.
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
Okay Igor, where are the plans?
Igor?
Oh yeah I sent Igor to gulag, and then to Ukraine.
Vanya, where are the plans?
Vanya?
...
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.
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.
Yeah, good luck with that.
How many holes will it have?
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.
Interest rates in russia just hit 15%.
Something tells me Putin won't be around anymore by 2027...
Or someone could just colorize and upscale that photo of Komarov's charred corpse and call it a day before anyone gets hurt
Ah. Planting the trees who's shade he'll never enjoy.
More like "election coming up soon, need to look like a strong, innovative leader of a successful country"
I hope he is man enough and files on the inaugural mission
Yeah, kind of poor statement considering track record of Soyuz.
that's assuming he still has a country in 2027
That's assuming Putin is still alive in 2027.
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?
Heheh they'll need a full complement of crew to do nothing but stick their fingers in leaks.
Just imagine the size of the crater it will leave on the moon.
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.
They’re gonna need to steal a looooot of washing machines
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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