Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry has successfuly launched a Shuttle Demonstrator from a Russian Submarine in the Barents Sea \u2013 which then completed a 35 minute sub-orbital flight before being retrived on the Kamchatka Peninsula. <\/p>\n
The craft \u2013 described only as a \u2018mini shuttle\u2019 by military officials quoted by the TASS news agency in Moscow \u2013 was launched on a converted Volna booster from a submerged Borisoglebsk submarine early Friday (local time).\n<\/p>\n
No other information on the craft has been revealed by officials and it is not known if there is any relevance to the new Kliper Shuttle which is currently being developed for service.<\/font> <\/font> Following its short flight, it landed safely on the Kamchatka Peninsula.<\/font> <\/font> It\u2019s high times for the Russian space flight program, with the head of the Russian Space Agency\u2019s Piloted Programs, Alexei Krasno, almost sounding like he was addressing NASA\u2019s current problems with their Space Shuttle when noting to a media conference that \u201cin 2004 Russia regained its status of leader in space launches. <\/font> <\/font> \u201cWe\u2019ll definitely retain this status in 2005,\u201d noting the schedule to be as aggressive as 2004 \u2013 with two Soyuz and four Progress launches \u2013 the final of which is due to launch in December \u2013 on the manifest for flights to the ISS. <\/font> <\/font> \u201cIt\u2019s not a race for quantity,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s confirmation that we have retained our placed at the top of the market for space services.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry has successfuly launched a Shuttle Demonstrator from a Russian Submarine in the Barents Sea \u2013 which then completed a 35 minute sub-orbital flight before being retrived on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The craft \u2013 described only as a \u2018mini shuttle\u2019 by military officials quoted by the TASS news agency in Moscow \u2013 was […]<\/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-42268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42268"}],"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=42268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}