Energy rocket

System from SupremeDorian
Cursed_ESS
Due to repeated launch failures and the United States taking the lead in landing on the moon, the Soviet government cancelled the N1 heavy launch vehicle originally developed for the Soviet Union's moon landing program in May 1974. As a substitute, the Soviet Union began to demonstrate the program of the energy rocket while canceling N1. In order to realize the future space development plan, the Soviet Union carried out a huge rocket space system development project (including RD-170 high-pressure afterburning engine, energy rocket, zenith rocket, space shuttle blizzard, etc.), and the energy spacecraft is only a part of this large system. The development cost of the whole system is estimated to be as high as 14 billion rubles. In 1976, the development of this system was officially started by the energy research and production consortium, in which the chief designer responsible for the rocket part of the energy was Cuban yev. The design goal of the energy rocket is to meet the launch mission of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, including: launching reusable orbital vehicles (space shuttles); launching large payload such as space station cabin into near earth space; launching heavy military and civil satellites into Leo and geosynchronous orbit; launching large deep space probes, etc. To achieve this goal, just like NASA's plan to replace Saturn 5 with a space shuttle, the energy research and production consortium has proposed Vulkan, which plans to design a modular rocket based on the proton rocket, which uses the same fuel as proton, is larger and has stronger thrust than proton, and adopts modular design.
The energy rocket was designed to carry the space shuttle blizzard, which is why the energy payload is located on the side of the rocket, not on the top. However, energy can also carry out the mission of heavy satellite launch, the first launch of energy carried a large military payload.
The energy has only carried out two missions, and during the first launch, the payload did not work properly. The legacy of the energy snowstorm program is the RD-170 series engine and zenith launch vehicle. Zenith's core stage is actually the same as the energy booster.

Data and pictures from Wikipedia