How This And Burevestnik ...

 ... are connected and not in a good way for Elon Musk, Space X and the US in general. It matters after yesterday's comments of Vladimir Putin on Burevestnik's propulsion. 

As strange as it sounds, but Musk's "audience" consists primarily of people with zero serious STEM education, liberal virtue signaling schizoids and zits-ridden soyboys and girls who ejaculate each time some SpaceX thing parks after the flight creating the illusion that Musk's promise of flight to Mars is to be fulfilled. I have news for them--no, SpaceX is not taking you or anyone else "to Mars". Chemical rockets cannot serve as the foundation of manned (as in--having HUMAN crew) missions to Mars, let alone other planets and planetoids of Solar System. Those chemical rockets are good primarily for delivering payloads to near Earth orbits where space stations and REAL starships will be assembled. The ones which will have enough thrust and power to accelerate massive ships to a non-trivial fraction of the light speed, say 600 to 1,000 km per second. 

Enter Burevestnik and Putin's revelation yesterday--a critical revelation:

The missile’s reactor “is comparable in output with a reactor of a nuclear-propelled submarine, but it’s 1,000 times smaller,” Putin said. “But the key thing is that where a regular reactor needs hours, days or weeks to go online, this one launches in minutes or seconds.”

I will be talking about it tomorrow, but this is from 11 moths ago, November 22, 2024. 

Manned flights to Mars may begin in the next 50 years, while Russia will begin to use "nuclear tugs" for deep space exploration within a few decades, Roscosmos Director General Yuri Borisov said in an interview with Solovyov Live. "I think that maybe even faster, in the next 50 years. <... > Appropriate technologies will be accumulated, worked out, new carriers will be created, which will make it possible to get to this distant planet much faster. And, of course, then the mission becomes more realistic. But, at least, [American entrepreneur Elon] Musk will visit Mars in the coming decades," Borisov said, answering a question about the timing of flights to Mars. The head of Roscosmos also said that it is planned to use the Zeus nuclear tug, which is being developed in Russia, for deep space exploration. It is planned to create its prototype in 2030. "We are doing this project on our own, it is going quite successfully. The corresponding reactor capacity has been achieved. And I think that we will not stop work in this direction, and somewhere in the 2030s and 40s, the product will be practically used for deep space exploration, for scientific programs," Borisov said.

It is clear now that a historic breakthrough has been achieved and that overturns our understanding of the REAL space travel with proper acceleration, cruise and deceleration near the target, not "shots" of vehicles with cramped quarters to save space for fuel and supplies. That changes the whole economics of space exploration. Many still cannot wrap their brains around what just happened with Burevestnik, I'll help, it is called technological revolution. Again, look at the size of these Russian ion engines:

These are not your traditional small, palm of your hand, ion engines for orbit correction of satellites, these are huge. All this is designed to push some damn large space vehicles towards Mars and beyond and they will (will? already have) have almost unlimited energy supply. You think it is Russian Rah-rah? I have news for you, Musk doesn't have a legitimate engineering background, people from Kurchatov Institute, however, do, real ones. This is from April this year. 

Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of the National Research Center (NRC) "Kurchatov Institute", told Russian President Vladimir Putin during the visit of the Russian leader on April 16 to the Bauman Moscow State Technical University about the technologies necessary for the conquest of deep space. "Now as for deep space. Deep space, these are, I think, the tales of this very [American billionaire and founder of SpaceX Elon] Musk <.. >Slogans are an important thing, but you can't fly anywhere on a liquid-propellant rocket. <… >We need to put a station on the Moon, test and adjust everything there. And from there to set up as a jump airfield," he said. Kovalchuk added that Russia is superior to the United States in the technology of creating nuclear reactors operating on hydrogen. According to him, this is enough to create an interplanetary tug. In addition, the president of the Research Center proposed a new "nuclear space project 2.0" with an emphasis on the independence of the Russian Federation in near-Earth space.

And let me tell you, we all know that Russians stole this technology from the US. Like they did with hypersonic technology/s. But what can I say, Tesla is a pinnacle of human idiocy and ignorant uneducated people's beliefs in magic. Ah yes, Poseidon was also tested recently. I live at the West Coast, so I have a vested interest in peaceful relations between the US and Russia. Meanwhile, something tells me--this is not the last we heard about Russian technologies. Stay tuned.