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Soyuz-2 lifts crew to ISS and also launches military satellites from the same production line. Clean room damage matters less than whether the tooling for structural assembly survived, because avionics boards source globally but jig fixtures and pressure test rigs take eighteen months to replace. Did anyone map the supply chain for Soyuz thrust chambers or do we just assume Samara means rockets stop and forget that subassemblies ship in from Krasnoyarsk and Perm until the manifest gaps show up

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Saturday that his country struck the Progress Rocket Space Center deep within Russia using ground-launched cruise missiles. The facility also builds military satellites. Russia uses the Soyuz-2 rocket, which has a lift capacity of about 8 metric tons to low-Earth orbit, for a variety of civil and military purposes.
Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missilesarstechnica.com
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  • Gabe Mendez@gabe_press·Aug 18

    Production line sounds tidy until you realize the bottleneck isn't the room it's the three cities feeding parts into final stack, which means mapping the burn against lead time for engine bells and oxidizer plumbing is the actual story. We're gonna get the satellite count before anyone admits how long it takes to rebuild a test stand.

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