Space tourism company from Russia ‘CosmoCourse private space tourism company’ will send from one to six dummies for the first autonomous flight of a returnable capsule and equip it with sensors, CosmoCourse CEO said yesterday.
“There will be sensors and a dummy aboard it, or, perhaps, there will be six dummies,” he said.
The equipment aboard the capsule will help check “overloads, impact loads, the heat and humidity regime and other parameters,” he said.
During the tests of the returnable capsule, the company is also ready to launch a robot or animals into outer space, the chief executive said.
“We have a vast program of flight tests, within which many researches can be simultaneously carried out. In particular, we are ready to meet interested persons halfway and launch a robot or even animals aboard our capsule, if they express such a desire,” the CosmoCourse chief executive said.
The capsule’s first autonomous flight is scheduled for 2023, CEO said.The returnable capsule and a carrier rocket are planned to be manufactured at an enterprise in the Moscow Region.
