Last week South Korea successfully launched Naro (KSLV-1) carrier rocket with composite units produced by the RT-CCTM holding.
The design works on the rocket started in 2002. Russia has participated in the project from 2004. The primary stage of KSLV-I was worked out by Khrunichev State Research and Production Centre involving Obninsk Technologiya (RT-CCTM). This unit was in fact a modification of the new Angara heavy carrier rocket’s primary stage.
Sergey Sokol, general director of the RT-CCTM holding, says the Obninsk venture has an over 30-year experience of working with carbon-plastic units for space and missile equipment. Technologiya has been cooperating with Khrunichev SRPC in terms of Proton-M and Angara carrier space vehicles designing for 15 years.
Now Technologiya has serial production of carbon-plastic scaled-up PLFs with the diameter over 4 metres and surface over 30 m2, integrated cylindrical sections, stage fairings and transfer orbit stages. The enterprise continuously modifies and improves its production.
Source: www.aviaport.ru
