Snapshots From Inside a Russian Rocket Factory? This Sneaky Photographer Got Them
- Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:07am by
Liz Klimas
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Russian rocket factories may be tightening their security thanks to one photographer who sneaked into an NPO Energomash factory outside of Moscow, shot dozens of photos and reported on her blog that the place was largely unguarded except for some security cameras.
Gizmodo reports that Lana Sator has been sent letters from authorities for her exploits, stating that if she doesn’t stop posting photos her situation could get “much worse.” But that hasn‘t stopped her and she’s even posted the letters on her blog, according to Gizmodo.
Here are some of her shots from the inside of a factory that designs liquid propellant rocket engines:
Gizmodo explains that while some of the photographs make the plant look abandoned, it is in fact a working factory. According to Gizmodo, the rockets produced at the plant are used by the Russian military and is responsible for creating launch vehicles like the Soyuz, which is known for failing to reach orbit while carrying cargo to the ISS last year. Soyuz did have a successful launch carrying astronauts two months later.
Take a look at more of Lana Sator’s photos of the factory here.
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Comments (98)
SurroundedinNH
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:14pmMaybe our dictator/ King was able to reach across the ocean with his supreme being and cut Russia’s troop levels too!
Report Post »ShawnB
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:27pmLOL best comment so far. Agreed
Report Post »Maji
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:42pmI know when we had visitors…we would erect steel corragated walls around
anything you weren’t suppose to see!
So cameras wasn’t a prob.
You wouldn’ t even know it was there.
Report Post »coindexter
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:41pmlooks like a water treatment facility
Report Post »JRook
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:50pmOh so your point is we still have to worry about Russia. A little paranoid are we. The US accounts for 45% of the military spending in the entire world. But people continue to present some phantom case that we should spend more not less. If you want to know who is raping the American taxpayer in terms of overspending and waste, then start with the military contractors.
Falcon67
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:57pmNo. His goal is to dismantle American Armed Forces period. He is preparing USA for the foreign invasion from whoever it will be, China, Russia, Iran, Arabs, South Americans, or all of them together. He couldn’t care less, as long as those American occupants will make him USA governor-general or vice-regent for life.
Report Post »sup3rm4n
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 3:49pmThe comment section needs a “Like” button. Right on man!!!!
Report Post »MeMadMax
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 4:52pmFrom an engineering standpoint, these pictures are worthless….
The real gold to be dug up on these engines is the turbo pumps: size, shape, plumbing, etc etc…
Otherwise, there’s nothing of much value here…
TXPilot
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 6:59pmWell, it’s nice to have pics of what an actual operational rocket factory looks like, since Obama killed our manned space program at NASA. Maybe we can get Burt Rutan to let someone take pics at Scaled Composites, to see what a real, operational, and better yet private American rocket facility looks like?
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 7:03pmLooks like the security we’ll have after our dictat…..um, President gets through with us. Is anyone else sick and tired of watching your country disinterrate in front of your eyes??????? IMPEACHMENT won’t happen as we have nobody withs BALLS left in Washington!!
Report Post »blondenblueeyed
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 8:20pmOr maybe he will volunteer to be the next astronaut to go to the moon via a Russian rocket. CHAIO
Report Post »seldomscene
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:08pmJROOK Have you ever read government bid specifications? The feds are the crooks. They are trying to trap contractors. Contractors are the good guys. The smart one’s are still in business despite of the feds tactics. We owe
a huge amount to contractors.
Tea
Report Post »Pigpen
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:02pmJROOK posted: “Oh so your point is we still have to worry about Russia. A little paranoid are we.[sic]”
No JROOK, I am not paranoid. The USA has allowed its ICBMs and SSBMs to age and to dwindle in number. We have actively cut our nuclear warheads and have not deployed any new nuclear warheads or delivery vehicles for 10-15 years. Yes, we DO spend an enormous amount on this nonsensical “peacefare”, but that is the old Vietnam Police Action coming out. (I agree, BTW, that mostly ruthless war profiteers are served with “peacefare” campaigns, not US Security goals.) Whereas Russia has just designed, produced, and FIELDED a brand new ICBM capable of MIRV and boasted by Russia to be able to defeat ANY missile defense system either built or to be built by the USA. These are FACTS, not paranoia. But the Cold War is over, right? Never mind the nuclear proliferation and open saber rattling by both Russia and China, we know the Cold War is over because the Nightly News, the average College Professor, and hippies like you SAID it was over! Right?
Report Post »filiusdracul
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:14pmCute girl, I wonder if she knows what polonium-210 tastes like.
Report Post »Iamnotanumber
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 4:09pmI bet it won’t be long before she does.
Report Post »DocH
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:34pmShe’s probably in the gulag for life for taking the pictures….never to be heard from again.
look73
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:09pmон ей знаком с детства )))
Report Post »зато она не знает вкус гамбургера и колы )))
Rowgue
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:13pmSeems too stuipd to be true quite frankly. By both the rocket production facility and the blogger.
Report Post »c.rozycki
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:00pmI agree… her photo is plastered everywhere and why wouldn’t the factory be more secure from the start? Not buying it…
Report Post »SurroundedinNH
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:11pmMaybe our dictator/ King was able to reach across the ocean with his supreme being and cut Russia’s troop levels too!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:11pmI hear Siberia is nice this time of year, be sure to write sweety.
Report Post »FREDD The WILSON
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:04pmWhere did she go? She was just here yesterday!!!
Report Post »Porkchop_sw
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:04pmWell thay cant rely on the USA to get them to the Space Station anymore, Maybe their just trying to continue where WE left off. Thanks to ObeyMe shutting down NASA.
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:48amWhy the black board with all the pics of rockets ? Looks like a school room to me.
Report Post »maybe a chemical factory.
scuba13
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:06pmI think I see a “ flux capasitor” in there from back to the future.
Report Post »ShawnB
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:29pmIve been looking for one of those since I am stuck in 2012(where Obama is drama) and where are the double ties like they showed in the movie :(
Report Post »PlowMan
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:58pmShawnb, wonder who is president in the parallel time line. We must go back to 1992 to change this time line. Lets try to take Ross Perot out so Clinton won’t get elected. Ho, Hum, I guess a guy can dream can’t he?
Report Post »look73
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:12pmэто комната славы где все достижения завода )))
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:27amThat is not a rocket factory. The Russians are attempting to build a cell phone….;they just have not conquered nano technology yet.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:02pmThats funny.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:44pm“I know what that is, it’s a snow cone maker.” (From the movie True Lies)
Report Post »look73
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:39pmда куда им русским со своими медведями )))
Report Post »они никогда ни чего не умеют но гагарин был первый )))
и спутник ))
GeneTracy
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:20amRussian rocket reconnaissance.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:14amWatch Lana Sator’s industrial photos on her Russian sites at http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/haematique/album/124149/ and http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/haematique/.
Report Post »Attagirl! Well done!
Verily,
Sator
Arepo
Tenet
Opera
Rotas
Hickory
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:58amThese photos are a distraction. Don’t believe for a minute the Russians are behind. Their ICBMs are as good as ours. Their security is so high that you only see what they will allow you to see. This is deceptive info from some who want us to back off.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:25amOh, sure! Specially for you, to distruct you, they put Russian signs all over the place (see, for instance, http://lana-sator.livejournal.com/160176.html#cutid1) and Russian inscriptions on all appliances , gauges, valves, tubes and so forth.
Report Post »In order to distract you, Russian even artificially created a Russian female photographer and named her Lana and then created her Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/haematique) and taught her Russian language, which, based on your comment, you should know very well, right?
AmazingGrace8
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:38amAgree!!!
Report Post »123456beatriz
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:42pmHey! Ivanov. I am agree. AmeriKa alert don’t believe in ex-soviets, look Bill Ayers, this guy and his wife are still communists, even they know what happened with Stalin so, WAKE UP!. And Putin always is moking AmeriKa.
Theleftisda
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:35pmReally?
Report Post »so your going to tell me the Russians have stealth nukes (they don’t we do )
look73
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:49pmнет верте так вам спокойнее ))
Report Post »gweilo
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:53amI can’t make any thing out of it
Report Post »OklahomaBound
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:40amGood thing Obama has agreed to send the Russians our technology, looks like the Rusians are falling behind and need an upgrade. Just like all socialist are generous with other peoples money, Obama is generous with our technology. Anything to destroy America, the lefts motto.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:11pmReagan, Bush 1 and Bush 2 sent far more technology capabilities and knowledge to foreign interests than Obama has – but that inconvenient fact doesn‘t fit in with your worldview so you’ll just make things up. I got new for you, Obama is going to win re-election because of idiots like you.
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:00pmSimpletruths – are you saying all three together sent more than Obama, or each of them by themselves sent more than Obama? Do you have facts to back that up?
Report Post »Iamnotanumber
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 4:15pm@simpletruths
and any sharing of tech by those you’ve listed pales in comparison to what the Clintoons GAVE TO CHINA, and where are we now!?!?!?
Report Post »NoMarxist
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:35amAnd the Russians are giving the technology for their nuclear program.. Maybe Israel should just wait a bit and Iran will nuke it’s self!
Report Post »Skee
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:19amIt’s a hoax.
Report Post »These pictures came from a factory in Detroit
or somewhere from the rust belt.
look73
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:03pmнет фото реальные )))
Report Post »bigfatslob
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:28amI guess these are their “Clean Rooms”, is it any wonder of the ultra high failure rate in their missle as well as their space exploration vehicles ??????
Report Post »TROONORTH
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:08amTake a close look at the engine in the last photo. Doesn’t that look like a modified V2 engine that the Germans designed 70 years ago? certainly the injection manifold on top and the shape of the combustion chamber are reminiscent. Surely the Russians have moved past parroting the Germans by now! The inability of their German experts ‘imported’ after the last war, to produce single large engines lead to the development of those multi engined designs they have now. Have the Russians gone back to a 70 year old drawing board?
Verner? Actung! Verner. Ist that du?
Report Post »Mr Galt
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:22am@TROONORTH,
Heh, heh, so true. The Comms can never accomplish much of anything without stealing the base technology first. Author Tom Clancy has often said that pretty much every piece of military hardware they’ve ever built is pretty much a “death trap”.
Report Post »audaxrex
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:40pm“ultra high failure rate”, huh? I think their record has been cleaner than the US, at least as far as mortality goes. They’re carrying us these days for manned flight.
Report Post »All these regrets about the downsized NASA from people who normally want the government out of industry… I would have thought y’all would be enthusiastic to see the space program being privatized. Make up your mind.
2theADDLED
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:00pm@ Mr Galt
Report Post »Most of the weapons of war and rocketry can be traced back to Hitler or Germany the U.S. just got their defecting scientist to come to the U.S. and we built off their technology. Who knows under the Obama regime the new defectors may be going to another country giving them a One up. Besides we probably import from there after all many of our rocket and weapons are not built in the U.S. it is cheaper to outsource the jobs and technology.
JoKerr
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 4:47pmADDLED, you are kind of right. We did borrow some German scientists after the war (Von Braun being the most notable) but look up your history, liquid fueled rocketry began in the 20′s with an American named Goddard. They all stole it from us.
And no, we do not import anything for our military (except maybe oil, and honestly, once it goes into the military stocks it’s all the same), everything that we use is made right here in the USA. That way our military will never be compromised by outside sources who either sabotage our equipment, hold it for ransom/demands, or sell the technology we are using to our enemies so that they know how to defeat us.
Report Post »yiddishlion
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 6:46pmAUDAXREX
Sorry but your ignorance is glaring. I know a man who was an interpreter for our intelligence service who monitored Russian radio transmissions for decades. He can tell you that not only have they had MANY disasters with their space and rocket programs that you will NEVER hear about, he will tell you the worst part of the job was listening to their Cosmonauts burn up during re-entry. And there were many……..I would never trust any Soviet made product to carry me into space. I wouldn’t even trust their airplanes.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:56pmJoKerr you are a joker just because it has the U.S. labeled on it does not make it made in the U.S.A. the LAWs rockets are french made as many other munitions are.
Report Post »timej31
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:25amnasty place from the 60′s. matches progressivism. tired and old.
Report Post »NYmike11
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:24amOur manufacturing base and military base at the end of obama’s next term.
Report Post »wowthird
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:04amExactly what I was thinking…
Report Post »ShawnB
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:30pmwow you read my mind as well… lol
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:23am.
Report Post »I thought it was a photo spread of what’s left of NASA……………..
let us prey
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:34amlol that is what I was thinking.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:22amthis is why obummer wants to send our tech to them…. theirs does not work.
Report Post »PAUL GULLO
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:22amcool piks
Report Post »speedyjerry
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:17amI doubt she’s still alive.
Report Post »AIDANMAN
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:17amthis is to be our space legacy… ooops….
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:15amThe jokes on us, thats the movie set for the new James Bond flick.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:47amAnd Russia said, “Let there be light”.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:11amSend her to Iran.
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