In Kazakhstan, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained two citizens of France and Germany who entered the Baikonur cosmodrome and tried to photograph the Energia rocket. This was reported today, November 1, by the prosecutor’s office of the Kyzylorda region.
“Employees of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation detained Guyon Axel Olivier RobertFrench citizen, born on January 11, 2003, and Lorenz Julian Carl JurgenGerman citizen, born on June 27, 1998, for walking without authorization on the territory of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, – the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Protocols on administrative offenses against detainees were drawn up in accordance with Article 20.17 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and on October 30, 2024, by decision of the Garrison Military Court in the Baikonur complex of the Russian Federation, an administrative penalty was imposed. They were applied in the form of administrative arrest for one day, after which they were expelled from the territorial complex. They will probably soon be expelled from the country.
As reported EADaily In July, three foreigners illegally entered the territory of the Baikonur cosmodrome. The uninvited guests managed to get to the installation and refueling complex, but were discovered by police patrols guarding the territory of the cosmodrome. Among those arrested were two Dutch citizens and a Belgian citizen. They had nothing to do with the cosmodrome. They did not have documents that gave them the right to remain in their territory.
Launch vehicle “Energia” The superheavy class was developed by NPO Energia in the early 1980s. At the time of the start of its operation in 1987, it was one of the most powerful in the world, along with the Saturn-5, N-1, and significantly exceeded the launch vehicles used in the world at that time in terms of capacity. ability to carry. Only two launches were carried out: on May 15, 1987 with an experimental payload and on November 15, 1988 as part of the Buran MTSC complex.
In the early 1990s, work on the Energia-Buran program was suspended and in 1993 the program was closed. At that time, at least five Energia launch vehicles were in different stages of preparation at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Two of them were destroyed on May 12, 2002 when the roof of the assembly and test building collapsed, three were in different stages of construction, but after the program closed, the missile bodies were cut up or thrown into the yard. back of the company, where they continue to reside to this day.
The technologies developed for Energia are still used today: the RD-170 side-block engine, the most powerful liquid engine in the history of astronautics, is used (under the designation RD-171) in the first stage of the launch vehicle. Zenit launch, and the twin-chamber 180 RD-170 engine (actually “half” of the RD-171), on the American Atlas-5 rocket.
