With a New Soyuz Rocket, Russia Seeks to Break Its Ukrainian Dependency (arstechnica.com)
(Tuesday August 26, 2025 @03:00AM (BeauHD)
from the what-to-expect dept.)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/08/26/041247/with-a-new-soyuz-rocket-russia-seeks-to-break-its-ukrainian-dependency
- Source link: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/with-a-new-soyuz-rocket-russia-seeks-to-break-its-ukrainian-dependency/
Russia's new Soyuz-5 rocket is set for a December debut as Moscow [1]seeks to end reliance on Ukrainian technology and replace its aging Proton-M fleet. Ars Technica reports:
> According to [2]the report , translated for Ars by Rob Mitchell, the debut launch of Soyuz-5 will mark the first of several demonstration flights, with full operational service not expected to begin until 2028. It will launch from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan. From an innovation standpoint, the Soyuz-5 vehicle does not stand out. It has been a decade in the making and is fully expendable, unlike a lot of newer medium-lift rockets coming online in the next several years. However, for Russia, this is an important advancement because it seeks to break some of the country's dependency on Ukraine for launch technology.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/with-a-new-soyuz-rocket-russia-seeks-to-break-its-ukrainian-dependency/
[2] https://science.mail.ru/news/7244-bakanov-podtverdil-chto-pervyij-pusk-raketyi-soyuz-5-projdet-v-dekabre/
> According to [2]the report , translated for Ars by Rob Mitchell, the debut launch of Soyuz-5 will mark the first of several demonstration flights, with full operational service not expected to begin until 2028. It will launch from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan. From an innovation standpoint, the Soyuz-5 vehicle does not stand out. It has been a decade in the making and is fully expendable, unlike a lot of newer medium-lift rockets coming online in the next several years. However, for Russia, this is an important advancement because it seeks to break some of the country's dependency on Ukraine for launch technology.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/with-a-new-soyuz-rocket-russia-seeks-to-break-its-ukrainian-dependency/
[2] https://science.mail.ru/news/7244-bakanov-podtverdil-chto-pervyij-pusk-raketyi-soyuz-5-projdet-v-dekabre/
Russia... (Score:2)
by bradley13 ( 1118935 )
Russia has always been dependent on other for much of their technology. However, they have immense mineral wealth that - with clever leadership - could be leveraged to make them wealthy and to build up their industry and technology.
Unfortunately, the past 15 years or so, it has become apparent that there is some inner clique of geezers who dream of the glory days of the USSR. Rather than investing their wealth, they are trying to retake the territories that used to be part of the USSR. The attack on the U
Isn't this admitting.... (Score:5, Insightful)
..Ukraine isn't part of Russia?
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Mod parent up!
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During WW2, the USA traded on a fairly large scale with Germany, up till and after Germany declared war on the USA in December 1941 - 2 years and 3 months after fighting began in Europe.
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Russia doesn't have any real technology of its own. For example, their space program was driven by Sergei Korolev and Yuri Kondratyuk plus their fellow Ukrainians, and when for propaganda purposes the first man in space had to be a Russian of a worker-peasant background, the spaceship was controlled remotely as Gagarin was deemed too unskilled to manage that. It's no surprise that when Ukraine regained independence, the space program stopped, with Russian efforts being about as successful as [1]Luna 25 [wikipedia.org].
Same
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_25
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And without boatloads of nazi scientists and engineers the US would never have gone to the moon.
You sound like the worst of the liar ukrainian propagandists
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I see. Just like the Chinese... and the Indians... and the Iranians... and the Arabs... and the Latin Americans...
Everyone, in fact, except the heterogeneous collection of random colonists who stole North American from its indigenous peoples.
How odd.
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Racist at all?
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Just for the sake of technical correctness; paying for foreign expertise with imperial extraction is a technology. It's over in the pointy section of political science; and going by the number of people who end up dead or in exile after a failed implementation, it's not a trivial matter.
One of the tricky bits, potentially one that they've had trouble with of late, is that pulling it off effectively usually means pretending that that isn't what you are doing, for the legitimacy and prestige, while keeping
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Look, I dislike Putin as much as the next guy, but that's a load of bullshit.
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> ..Ukraine isn't part of Russia?
Not yet! But I have it under good authority from he who shall not be questioned out of fear of polonium tainted tea that Ukraine just wants to be part of Russia and the only thing that's holding them back is that Russia hasn't liberated it from Nazis or something along those lines.