Soyuz 5 with PTK Federatsiya Spacecraft 1.5

Hello everyone! I have released an upgraded version of the Soyuz 5 PTK Federatsiya Spacecraft.

Video: https://youtu.be/1sHoRUujLS4

Upgrades:

The controls are the same. It goes into orbit automatically. No need to lift a finger.

Added more detail and as you can see the launch pad has been greatly upgraded

Launch pad upgrades:

added a much better bridge that droonauts can walk on.

added 4 huge antennas for communication

added a road (how is it called again?) leading up to the launchpad.

added a decorative truck

Rocket upgrades:

Added more detail

upgraded the vizzy program

Photos:

Basic info:

In 2013, engineers at TsSKB Progress in the Russian city of Samara began preliminary work on a new rocket series dubbed Soyuz-5. The new booster could cut cost of space transportation thanks to its reliance on new engines burning environmentally safe and widely available propellant made out of cryogenically cooled natural gas (or methane) instead of traditional kerosene fuel.

Soyuz-5 could eventually replace current rockets in the Soyuz family capable of delivering up to eight tons of payload to the low Earth orbit. Moreover, follow-on variants could carry 16 tons, thus replacing Zenit, and 25 tons, matching Proton in the current Russian fleet. Farther into the future, Soyuz-5 could pave the way to heavy and super-heavy rockets, as well as to low-cost reusable space boosters.

As of 2015, the price tag for a single launch of the Soyuz-5.1 variant, including the Fregat upper stage, was expected to be as low as $50 million to match or even outcompete the US Falcon rocket series on the international market.

However the Soyuz-5 rocket, which is still on the drawing board, overlaps the capabilities of the new-generation Angara family, which reached the launch pad in 2014. Still, engineers at TsSKB Progress were banking on the fact that a slowly emerging propulsion technology relying on methane would justify the development of at least an experimental rocket to prove the viability of the new fuel for future space launchers. Under such a scenario, the Soyuz-5 could serve as a precursor to a reusable booster stage in the next-generation space transportation system.

PTK Federatsiya space modular:

In 2017, developers were preparing to build the first major experimental components of the PTK Federatsiya spacecraft for initial full-scale tests. In the meantime, Roscosmos switched PTK's rocket again, this time, from the Angara-5P to the Soyuz-5. It also meant that the flight testing of the Federatsiya would now originate from Baikonur. The first launch had to be postponed to 2022.

Note: If the rocket explodes when you spawn make sure the physics settings are on high.

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