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<\/p>\n <\u2014**New stock in-store now. Show your support for manned space flight and support this site at the same time**<\/p>\n <\/font><\/em>While He3 holds great value to the new range of fusion nuclear power stations, it is not known why Sevastyanov would see value in an earlier target of exploitation from the lunar surface, when the new power stations are believed to be decades away from making He3 commercially viable. <\/font><\/p>\n RIA Novosti didn\u2019t quote Sevastyanov\u2019s claim for the reason they are looking towards a new Soyuz system for such a purpose, noting instead: \u2018Before the new Klipper space shuttle is there to take over, we will have to master new digital control systems that we are now installing on Soyuz (craft) instead of analogue parts.\u2019 <\/font><\/p>\n This was hinted at before, during a wide-ranging interview with Vedomosti<\/i> magazine. \u2018We could make a landing as early as 2012-2014 using the Soyuz<\/i>-type technology,\u2019 he said.<\/font><\/p>\n \u2018With a budget within $2 billion, we could land on the Moon in three missions. <\/font><\/p>\n \u2018The first would be just a lunar fly-around mission, the second would involve a circumlunar orbit injection with automatic landing of the lunar module, and the third would be the manned landing on the Moon. <\/font><\/p>\n \u2018As for the industrial transportation system to support regular missions to the Moon and lunar mining operations, we could develop it by as early as 2020.\u2019<\/font><\/p>\n Technology News (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n During that interview, Sevastyanov showed signs of his passion for being involved in a mission that he believes is critical for our planet.<\/font><\/p>\n \u2018A good candidate is isotope helium-3 to be used for nuclear power. It is available on the Moon.<\/font><\/p>\n \u2018The earth\u2019s reserves of helium-3 are so negligible that their industrial use is absolutely out of the question. According to some estimates, our natural satellite contains no less than 1 million tons of helium-3, which can fully meet the entire Earth\u2019s power demand for a period of more than 1000 years.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n Other news:<\/u><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n Chinese media outlet Xinhua has reported that China has successfully launched a remote sensing satellite Thursday morning. The Remote Sensing Satellite No. 1 was launched on a Long March 4-B carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China\u2019s Shanxi Province at 6:48 am local time on Thursday.<\/p>\n RSC Energia Chief Executive Nikolai Sevastyanov has given indications that his company will be able to provide moon exploitation options to the Russians, even before the their Kliper shuttle starts service in 2015. A new, modified version of the Soyuz TMA vehicle, either manned or remotely controlled via a new digital system, could be used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/content.nasaspaceflight.com\/library\/1016\/AdBanners\/storelogo3.jpg\")
<\/font><\/em><\/font><\/em><\/font><\/p>\nThe flamboyant \u2013 yet influential \u2013 Energia CEO is under no illusions about the 2012-2014 timeline it would take for his company to support Russia\u2019s first manned mission to the Moon, including the mining of isotope helium-3 by 2020. Now it would seem his targets are not restricted to the introduction of the Kliper. <\/font><\/p>\n
\u2018We must do this within the lifetime of our generation, first of all because of the limited nature of energy resources,\u2019 he added. \u2018One way or the other, but we will have to go beyond our planet in the search of new environmentally friendly power sources. <\/font><\/p>\n
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