Project Mir station complex / UR-500 family

[N_Molson]

Ok I think it could be some kind of heatsinks for big resistors... I may be wrong, any advice welcome.

 

[Astronautical achievement]

I think they are heatsinks knowing how hot a rocket engine firing can get (I.E 5,000 degrees)

 

[N_Molson]

I think they are heatsinks knowing how hot a rocket engine firing can get (I.E 5,000 degrees

That wouldn't help at all. When the Stage 3 engines ignites, the Stage 2 is disconnected by explosive bolts and all power lines are severed. The Stage 2 remains pretty much inert after that, only venting the tanks.

 

[Urwumpe]

Anyone knows what those things are ? Looks like a stack of parallel plates... I doubt such electrical equipment is specific to the Proton, but my knowledge in electrics is very limited...

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Looks more like multiple cable bundles getting connected. its not really parallel and it has the same appearance as cables somewhere else. A better picture could help there, especially since we only see one third of the interstage there.

Would be a bit weird to put an radiator into the place without any airflow during launch. And you can use the structure of the rocket as heat sink.

 

[N_Molson]

A better picture could help there

I wish I had...

 

[N_Molson]

So, something like that, still WIP :

 

[N_Molson]

Still a big "2x4" white relay to wire (the one near what I think is the tank fueling or vent pipe), I begin to like how it looks :

 

[MaxBuzz]

update (everything works as i wanted)
Google Drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/11b18FU84VrX0ehnSoPSnagYpkyTJHYKa/view?usp=sharing

 

[N_Molson]

Found another good view of the interstage, should really help, from this documentary :

 

[MaxBuzz]

Fairing Soyuz TM-13 (1991) (This is the flag of the USSR and Austria)

 

[MaxBuzz]

Fairing Soyuz TM-17 (1993)

 

[MaxBuzz]

Fairing Soyuz TM-27 (1998)

 

[MaxBuzz]

Fairing Soyuz TM-22 (1995)

 

[MaxBuzz]

orbits of the launching Soyuz-tm and the station are now the same

 

[MaxBuzz]

launch time Soyuz-TM coincides with the real

 

[MaxBuzz]

Progress

 

[MaxBuzz]

Soyuz-T for Salyut-7

 

[MaxBuzz]

Soyuz TM-16 "Soyuz Rescuer" (for the evacuation of the Shuttle crew in the event of an accident)

 

[MaxBuzz]

Soyuz TM-2 night launch

 

[MaxBuzz]

now there is a launch sound, when the orbit is reached, the music of that era starts playing