How the fuck they gonna get to the moon if they can't get to Kiev?
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Russia plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next few years
(www.independent.co.uk)
The moon currently doesn't have anti-rocket weapons systems. Kyiv does.
I'd crowd fund putting anti-rocket weapon systems on the moon. I bet we can beat Russia there.
However Kyiv does have a breathable atmosphere so it probably equals out.
I'd love to know what their plan for cooling the reactor is. I suspect their pie in the sky pseudoplan has not bothered to take into account little things like thermodynamics
Instead they're gonna take over the new Kiev they build on the moon.
Russia doesn't even have any functioning launch pads for manned flights after the Baikonur Cosmodrome was damaged in November
Crewed or non-crewed even! They can't even launch crewless Progress resupply vehicles to the ISS right now.
They have other launch platforms that can be used to reach the moon, but Baikonur is specifically suitable for reaching the very specific orbit of the ISS without a plane change manuver.
What they most specifically lack is access to modern hardened semiconductors. They are throwing all those at Ukraine.
One other, Vostochniy, which is also not exactly doing great
In the next few years?! Lol. That's Elon Musk batshit crazy.
It'll be the US and China going to the moon, most likely, in the next decade or so.
Seems a bit ambitious for a country that has yet to even land successfully on the moon.
with China
This answers a few questions
It's like this ancient joke about the kid that says he and his dad know the answer to every question.
I wouldn’t rely on Russia to get a shoebox diorama of a nuclear reactor to the moon “within the next decade.”
I would assume that China is doing the larger part of this.
The article text just says that they're building a nuclear power plant, not transporting it or building other components of the lunar base.
They are so cash strapped, instead of building a new space station, they are reusing the 30 year old capsules from the current ISS. Against everyone's recommendations, even their own scientists.
I totally believe you, but do you have some sources for me?
This wasn't the original article I read but it's all over the place now. https://phys.org/news/2025-12-russia-space-station-recycling-iss.html
Thanks!
The latest concept for the ROS reflects Roscosmos' changing situation in recent years, owing to sanctions and the termination of international cooperation following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. According to Orlov's announcement, Russia will separate its modules from the ISS once the program is completed in 2030, forming the core of the ROS, with other modules to follow.
This really sounds like just decoupling & rearranging the modules & renaming the result.
And it's being sold as Russia being once again on the forefront of space technology or so.
On a side note, I wonder if there's any sort of objective statement to be obtained anymore from any expert working for any Russian institution.
It's nice to hear crazy statements from a dictator other than trump
I want a new gameshow where two contestants say the most unbelievable shit to each other until the other has no retort. First episode is Trump and Putin.
Yea me too. Call the AP for a presser.
No, they don't
They'll have to fight the Nazis that reside in the dark side
Lunar chernobyl would be funny enough I'm here for it
Umm... Cooling?
There are spacecrafts that currently require cooling for electronics or for nuclear reactors or wtv. You can't use convection (a fluid, such as the atmosphere, contacting what you want to cool), but you can cool using radiation. Just emit extra energy as radiation and you can keep whatever cool
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they played a little too much RA2, yuris revenge.
Lets see how long this special operation lasts.
Russia is reportedly planning to establish a nuclear power plant on the moon within the next decade.
...Elon Musk...
The moon, which is 384,400 km (238,855 miles) from our planet, moderates Earth’s wobble on its axis, which ensures a more stable climate. It also causes tides in the world’s oceans.
Sure, why not?
The residents of the hollow Moon might object.
So I'm curious, normally a nuclear power plant uses mass amounts of water to heat and cool in a steam based engine/turbine essentially, thus creating the power. Would this not take at least 300 successful moon landings just to get the water there, let alone the storage for the water and any other materials needed. So I imagine minimal 500 moon landings to get a small makeshift power station? Or am I missing something drastic here..
There is ice on the moon, so it's possible they're planning on harvesting that.
Also liquid hydrogen and oxygen can be shipped up much easier than water directly.
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So am I.
Stupidest plan ever. How exactly do they plan to send the power to orbiting space systems? And who is going to operate and maintain the systems?
lol….. this isn’t happening.
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