UR-700 Soviet Union Heavy-Lift Orbital Launch Vehicle

The UR-700 was Vladimir Chelomei's heavy-lift entry for the Soviet moonshot. It was meant to carry cosmonauts to the Moon on a direct ascent mission in the LK-1 lunar craft

[@justjustin7060]

0:52 the slow shaking of the side boosters, the water drops, this is incredible! to say this is realistic would be an understatement!

[@scheewheed8285]

So you mean it’s more realistic than reality?

[@ScienceRules118]

Ehh... I'll give an A+ for effort, but a B+ for realism - the UR-700 was an entirely liquid fueled rocket, meaning that, to my knowledge, the side boosters should have stopped having a visible exhaust plume very quickly after separation, instead of the Space Shuttle SRM - like effect in the video. Likewise, they likely wouldn't have had separation motors to induce the kind of pitch seen in the video, as that was done on the Space Shuttle to prevent the SRMs from hitting the wings of the Orbiter. On the UR-700, that kind of motion could instead result in the 3rd booster colliding with the UR-700 after separation. On a related topic, the exhaust plumes stay too fixed at a given level of expansion - logically, they would have gotten much wider as the rocket ascended, due to reduced atmospheric pressure preventing the exhaust from fully expanding.

[@W4UP_5N31KO]

We may find out that space was a vacuum chamber, About -270.45 DC.

[@PaddyPatrone]

the time when russia went full ksp

[@Gert_Zomer]

hahahaha I was just about to say *MOAR BOOSTERS*

[@innsj6369]

Shame it never actually launched :(

[@rwboa22]

@@innsj6369, looks good on paper, but imagine the cleanup of all of the hypergolic residue. At least with the R-7 and it's derivatives (now being the Soyuz-2), you know that the fuel is just highly-refined jet fuel.

[@KarolOfGutovo]

Wait till you hear about UR-900. an ebven bigger clusterfuck of boosters

[@Moai_454]

Totally

[@Neris-of-the-other]

Please, create "Energia-2" launch, flyback & recovery animation.

[@OldTownCrab]

It has finally happened

[@janakakumara3836]

UR-700 was fueled with N2O4 / UDMH. So the flame would be blue to colorless.

[@crgkevin6542]

Love how the audio has the delay of the sound of the launch arriving in the long shots!

[@craigrmeyer]

Oh man. Surely it would be a ton of work, but an end-to-end animation of the UR-700 moon mission, from takeoff to re-entry at least, would be just fantastic. You could Kickstarter it.

[@Vektorix28205]

There's no one better at these kinds of videos right now than Hazegrayart... you are simply killing it! What I wouldn't give for a full length treatment of a Saturn V launch from you!

[@kaleidyscope86]

Could you please make a video of the UR-900? It's the Mars version. There are specs!

[@pyrusrex2882]

i now have a hydrazine hard on...... if there was one rocket in history I would want to see fly, it would be this one

[@michagrill9432]

Whats worrying is it wouldve been fueled with hypergolic fuels... imagine that

[@MentorAnimations]

Amazing video! the level of detail in this stuff is top tier. Keep up the good work

[@Mr_Friendly_B]

The good news is that Soviet escape systems were reliable.

[@dave13dc]

Technically a very interesting concept to say the least. Probably a better bet than N1 assuming funding and time for development were available which is a big question mark. The Soviet moon program failed due to massive management issues and underfunding. They were never short of vision. UR-700 would have used very nasty propellants. The flight profile was a direct ascent to the moon with no stay in earth parking orbit. Not quite noticeable here is the interesting way the stages are stacked together. Check out exploded layouts on Google.

[@jonhartstone6006]

this is really cool - brilliant work Hazegrayart

[@TomTimeTraveler]

Fantastic video! One wonders if Chelomei had been favored over Mishin and the N-1 would the Russians have beaten the US to the moon. This booster is somewhat analogous to the proposed Nova booster.

[@fork9001]

It’s the complete opposite design philosophy to the Nova booster. More engines, each engine being very efficient. Detachable boosters, staging, more staging, even more staging. Complete opposite of you ask me.

[@user-he3ok3iq6v]

Простите, что поздно пишу комментарий. Только сегодня нашёл этот ролик. Не уверен, что Челомей успел бы построить свою ракету УР-700, построить стартовый комплекс для неё, испытать и запустить с космонавтами на Луну. 1. СССР опаздывал на 3-4 года от США с её Сатурном и Аполлоном. 2. Протон в то время чаще взрывался, чем летал. Из 26 пусков 15 были аварийными. 3. У СССР не было систем ручного управления на лунных кораблях. Да и вообще было техническое отставание от США в плане бортовых компьютеров. СССР достиг уровня США только в начале 1970-х годов, когда запустил 2 своих Лунохода. Но уже отказался от высадки космонавтов на Луну. Проект УР-700 был отличным. Но он опередил свое время. В 1970-е он мог быть реализован, но в то время уже началась разработка ракеты Энергия. Но советский Боливар уже не мог вынести две сверхтяжелые ракеты.

[@franciscoborrashidalgo7776]

I don't think the UR-700 would have won the Moon race for the Soviets nor even take them to the Moon, maybe it could have gone closer to doing so than the N1, but it would have been too late for the Soviet Space Program, specially with how ambitious Chelomei's project was. I think this is the only way in which a soviet moon landing with the UR-700 could have happened: _______________________________ After Korolev's death, Chelomei writes a letter to top soviet officials regarding the future of the N1-L3 program, stating that, without Korolev, the program won't go anywhere and that it's better to shift it's resources towards his UR-700 rocket which is (in theory) more capable than the N1, also explaining the possible ramifications of the program such as trips to Venus and Mars. With the letter in hand and with some political motivations in between, Chelomei's ambitious plan is approved. The facilities in development for the N1 program in Baikonur are immediately redesigned for supporting the UR-700 while the parts and engines for the rocket enter their testing and prototype fase. While all this happens, Chelomei (with the increased budget for his main programs) dedicates some time in improving the design of the UR-500 (Proton) rocket to ensure that his newly acquired trust by soviet officials doesn't go to waste because of a few launch failures. _______________________________ This is how I think this scenario could have started. It actually leaves the doors open for a pretty great alternate history in which Vladimir Chelomei became the new Sergei Korolev of the Soviet Space Program.

[@Lordpeyre]

If I'm not much mistaken, this was also planned for their direct ascent spacecraft, the LK-700.

[@anuvisraa5786]

the lk 700 was the part of the ur 700 that landed on the moon the ur 700 did not have a lunar orbit randebu

[@aaronsmith8073]

The irony is that Chelomei’s rocket may have actually worked

[@cholodelrosari0543]

Because the rocket engine was designed by Glushko's OKB 456 Bureau, the leading rocket design of the soviet space program. Glushko wants hypergolic fuels, something that korelev opposed due to its toxicity

[@maximmnukhin1145]

1) Unlikely, since it was too complicated, with elements such as pumping fuel from one stage to another in flight (this was realized only 20 years later in the space shuttle, and then with a lot of difficulties). 2) rather, Glushko refused to make engines running on kerosene for the H-1, although, knowing his talent in the development of LRE, he could cope with it. And he really coped, 20 years later his Energia rocket with kerosene and hydrogen rocket engines was launched. It is worth noting that at the time of the development of the lunar rocket, Glushko was also against the development of liquid hydrogen engines in the USSR (that's why the N-1 had kerosene upper stages).

[@aaronsmith8073]

@@maximmnukhin1145 thank you I didn't know that he was against liquid hydrogen engines. I read somewhere that Glushko (pretty sure it was him but it could have been Chelomei) lamented upon the Soviet Union's late start in rocket development (noting the US Airforce had a huge financial and technological support in developing rocket motors, one of which would go on to become the famous rocket motor that would help propel mankind to the moon)

[@Superstacco]

Astounding work. Your best yet.

[@johnmanderson2060]

Awesome work! Congratulations 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@TomTimeTraveler]

Possible to add the LK in the video to show the direct ascent to the lunar surface?

[@michelvan97]

best Video on UR-700 in action do we get LK-700 moon landing also ?

[@vonbraunwerner9067]

Hello Michel, it's Archibald, under a cover name. Those videos just blew my mind. We need this guy on secrets projects and NASAspaceflight.com !!!! "They, want, you, in the NASA" "In the NASAAAAA...."

[@eelo216]

@@vonbraunwerner9067 stfu

[@seanbaskett5506]

I LOVE hypergolic rockets. I now have an unsymmetrical dimethylhard-on

[@josephg3231]

Seeing some launched of the purposed Saturn Rocket mods would be awesome

[@starshot5172]

I love the grid fins

[@Hyperious_in_the_air]

imagine this, but they land the boosters KSP style on Kamchatka peninsula.

[@mikicerise6250]

Land the boosters KSP style means slamming them into the ground and watching them explode, no? ;)

[@SRFriso94]

Haa, the UR-700, back when people thought it was a good idea to launch the biggest rocket ever fueled entirely by hypergolics. Yikes. Glad this thing never made it off paper. Great animation though.

[@rostamr4096]

Quality of your simulations are out of this world, pun intended...

[@gate7clamp]

This is the most kerbal rockets I've ever seen

[@camisoles9521]

Amazing as always

[@Mr.Deleterious]

The sound quality on these videos is friggin intense lol

[@somedudetm2743]

Could you make an animation for the Ariane 6 :)

[@PaddyPatrone]

he already did

[@user-wu6eq1ty1y]

Awesome animation

[@OldGamerNoob]

The sound effects and extra little details might make some think this was actual launch footage

[@odysseusrex5908]

Very excellent video. Any idea what this thing's thrust would have been? What was the decision making process that lead them to choose the N-1 over this concept?

[@cholodelrosari0543]

Thats because Korolev has political connections with Breschev, the soviet premier leader that time And Breschev chooses Korolev's N1 over Chelomei's UR 700.

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

The absolutely insane chemicals this thing usdd Korelev didn't want man rated Hypergolic rockets, Given Glushko once killed hundreds of workers when one of his rockets exploded on the pad in a test, and spread extremely corrosive and toxic gases Pretty sure this thing used UDMH, same fuel as that rocket test used

[@user-he3ok3iq6v]

У Королёва, автора ракеты Н-1, был непререкаемый авторитет. Он и продавил (лоббировал) перед правительством СССР свою ракету вместо предложенных Челомеем УР-700 и Янгелем Р-56.

[@user-he3ok3iq6v]

​@@cholodelrosari0543верно. Но Королев ещё раньше запускал свои ракеты и корабли при генеральном секретаре Хрущёве, а потом да, при Брежневе.

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@user-he3ok3iq6v Я вижу, это имеет смысл. Я читал о политической хватке Королева. Спасибо.

[@tmerkury2813]

The legend is back

[@vitosnet]

Monstrous thing. Thankfully, engine would not work. If that one would blow on pad then most probably it would be needed to evacuate and then chemically neutralize whole rests of launchpad, facility, and city nearby. As You may read at Chertok, when N-1 blew at pad than rain of kerosene, which wasn't burned at explosion wholly, still dropped after half of hour up to safety bunker. With that one it would be poisonous hydrazine rain. Moreover, it's carcinogen - one of Russian chiefs took one Poroton explosion too deep to the heart, just went to crash site immediately, and then passes just in few years. Who knows how much lives that monster would took. Minds which invented it was inecologic completely.

[@caav56]

Glushko gave no fucks about the ecology. Some of his engines were supposed to work on 30% Beryllium+Pentaborane in 70% Hydrazine fuel.

[@vitosnet]

Yes, the thought about power only. Though, behind his politeness was something as "burn them all, then invent something different completely".

[@caav56]

@@vitosnet Are you about his attempt to completely erase N-1 and all related hardware from history?

[@vitosnet]

Not, more about alternative Chelomey UR-700 project with 5000 tonnes of hydrazine and acid, and third stage on fluorine or nuclear one.

[@caav56]

@@vitosnet UR-700A? I can see that. And now, imagine the unholy hybrid between UR-900 (which was supposed to use UR-700-derived second, thid and fourth stages) and UR-700A...

[@richardjonsson1745]

The drop of the last boosters/tanks... that's just littering, right? Those would just end up as orbital debris.

[@jordan-ho7gt]

Make a 'sea dragon' launch

[@SecretAsian27]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnmqZI1mhJ6LsNE

[@motokid6008]

This is fantastic.

[@doutorjp4454]

Make a Nasa's journey to Mars animation

[@othmana.4506]

can you at least mention the "animation" thing somewhere in the description, you got me confused for a minute or so!

[@kaiserwilhelmdergrosse1871]

If you know anything about the craft then you’d know it never launched. All this guy does is animations. -A message from His Imperial and Royal Majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm der Groß.

[@killerdoritoWA]

Looks like the inspiration for the Energia.

[@joshhammond665]

Orion docking with the deep space gateway next please?

[@Nem0ful]

Can you make ur-700a?

[@sethb1963]

Graphically 3D !! i just wonder, is it necessary thing to space vehicle to install microphone, recording the sound from outside the vehicle? Contradiction to the reality of sound needing air to be a medium but vacuum space any air hardly find. and in the second state separation appear to be producing sound so clearly in the thin air atmosphere. no sound distortion.

[@felixnuwahid9879]

Nice

[@softb]

Is it safe to say that with all the hypergolic fuel, if that rocket explode it could’ve poisoned the entire area along with the nuclear upper stage

[@maximmnukhin1145]

probably not, since in the USSR, in this case, he developed a special program for detoxification of the soil in the area of the fall of the booster stage. Subsequently, this came in handy for "protons". there are no stages with nuclear engines in the base UR-700.

[@softb]

@@maximmnukhin1145 pretty sure the ur-700 would’ve had theoretical nuclear upper stages

[@maximmnukhin1145]

@@softb nuclear modification was UR-700 A

[@k-aerospace]

This rocket is more Kerbal than the N1

[@darshan303]

Didn't look like real anyways..If this is the prospective product animation than I wish all the very best to Russia... Competition is good...

[@georgeghleung]

I think it's time you make an animation based on DIRECT-Jupiter III

[@zoidburg2975]

So much sound in the vacuum of space...

[@pyrusrex2882]

That was a gloriously beautiful rendering of one fuck ugly rocket. Subscribed.

[@Sthan1]

Ratio between cargo and propulsion seems not correct..

[@dphuntsman]

Showing my ignorance here...but I had never heard that this had been on the drawing boards (post N-1, one assumes). Anyone know more about it?

[@VG_164]

This was the competing rocket with the N1. It got quite far into development as well, look up the RD-270 engines developed for it. Probably the most impressive engines every built and fired imo. It's comparable to the Raptor.

[@user-he3ok3iq6v]

Эскизный проект был готов в 1968 году. И даже был изготовлен полноразмерный макет. Но после закрытия программы макет был уничтожен.

[@user-he3ok3iq6v]

​@@VG_164с Раптором некорректное сравнение. 1. У них разное топливо. У Раптора метан и кислород, у РД-270 гептил и амил. 2. Тяга РД-270 - 640 тс, тяга Раптора-2 - 230 тс. 3. Раптор многократного включения с дросселированием, РД-270 не имел такой возможности.

[@followthegrow108]

People stealing your vid and putting it on shorts and getting millions of views and making money off your work. You gotta do something

[@janderson1036]

is similar to the crazy rockets that some spaceflight simulator players build

[@Peter_Schluss-Mit-Lustig]

It's called kerbal and it's art

[@seantaggart7382]

Indeed MASSSIVE number of boosters

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

The most Kerbal rocket ever ^^

[@makfarik]

Nice... Cinema 4D ?

[@TomasRobles]

SFS rockets in free edition be like:

[@cowboybob7093]

Back when Russia was great!

[@softb]

Russia was never great, russia is a relatively young country, the soviet union made all of this

[@cowboybob7093]

@@softb And the Soviet Union wasn't great either. I guess it's too late to hashtag that sarcasm

[@MelonPGEnjoyer761]

rockets being designed in ksp:

[@GeffenAvraham]

Really disappointed that you didn't actually show the rocket, you only showed it from super close up or from too far away. Show the rocket, man!

[@grass.5507]

It's for a realistic feel y'know

[@user-he3ok3iq6v]

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[@ucli3x]

Congratz!

[@LDTV22OfficialChannel]

Wait a minute never mind about the idea, you already did it

[@123TeeMee]

Why can't they use boosters that deplete quicker, and stage them instead of having all those big ones separate at the same time, having to lug all that weight for all that time?

[@user-he3ok3iq6v]

Для сверхтяжелой ракеты это невозможно. Мощные двигатели требуют много топлива. Посмотрите на Старшип и его первую ступень.

[@123TeeMee]

@@user-he3ok3iq6v yeah ok

[@matthewseligman5470]

The most Kerbal rocket design in existance

[@seantaggart7382]

Indeed As TD Channel used it for his series!

[@sheilateer8027]

Just like future soviet union real life

[@Helios-Rex]

I think I designed this in KSP

[@seantaggart7382]

The fuel here is dangerous but powerful

[@McDonnellDouglasMD11a183]

KSP in real life be like:

[@maxpower19711]

More BFR vids

[@sphurtimuglikar5376]

Its animated !!

[@james-jn3yk]

Good computer graphics

[@aquasurfer9]

Great CGI. when did this launch. Be cool if they could get it to cost 90 million ruples.

[@SecretAsian27]

Rick Ruehl it was never made, only designed on paper as a replacement for the failed N1

[@user-he3ok3iq6v]

​@@SecretAsian27Владимир Челомей.

[@keioomachi9935]

Alexey Leonov on board

[@elonmusk9953]

That was totally filmed with a green screen.

[@lesbsocal9107]

Very nice but I likecthe Koyannisqatsi rocket launch.

[@1959Edsel]

Jebediah would be proud.

[@purdunetae2995]

Nice job but if you really wanted to be realistic it would have gone boom shortly after take off... ;)

[@caav56]

That's not N-1.

[@elonironspace2968]

Kerbals play human space program 😂😂

[@gonun69]

Just add more boosters.

[@kaliphorniec]

Как тебе такое, Илон Маск?)

[@sergiyivanov4619]

Как тебе такое, Рогозя?!

[@philipbay1548]

Why didn't the USSR fly this rocket?

[@maximmnukhin1145]

Vladimir Chelomey's UR-700 was one of three rockets proposed for the Soviet lunar program. Other variants were Sergei Korolev's N-1 and Yangel's R-56. The UR-700 was too complex a rocket with toxic fuel components, and the R-56 was the R-56 could put too little into orbit with the same disadvantages as the UR-700. Thus, the most reasonable option was chosen - N-1.

[@philipbay1548]

@@maximmnukhin1145 sad, the n1 was doomed to failure from the start.

[@maximmnukhin1145]

@@philipbay1548 As a person living in Russia, I am also sad that I could not see my compatriots walking on the moon. How to sing in the most famous Soviet song about space: "On the dusty paths of distant planets Our footprints will remain..."

[@philipbay1548]

@@maximmnukhin1145 I wish that the Russians had made it to the moon as well, as eve if it was after the Apollo 11 landing the space race undoubtedly would have continued well into the 1970's and 80's. Who knows where we would be by now. Had Koralev lived, its possible that the N1 would have worked (Alexi Leyonev believes it would have and that he would have been the first man on the moon, maybe true), but I think this rocket, the UR 700, would have been the best shot.

[@kennybostic474]

Wow did you see the flat earth, No you didn't because you fell for a lie. I noticed something different about Space X and the Russian heavy lift. On the Space X rocket, the flames were shooting straight out and were not wider than the whole Rocket, making it more efficent like thrust vectoring. The Russian Heavy had more boosters, yet I noticed the flame coming from the back was larger than the rocket making it a little less efficient, yet it achieved it's goal and to be able to see the whole earth they were way up in orbit. I believe NASA considers space to be 75 miles up.

[@matthewseligman5470]

This what all KSP rockets looked like back in the old days

[@user-zi8ht1fi6c]

Dude, Flat Earthers really hate your videos and dislike them. Hope you don't take it too close to heart, you are doing amazing animations.

[@carterrissmiller2510]

add moar bosters

[@cautiousoptimist]

Decent sim...

[@aidansnose4625]

the soviet union doesn't exist anymore

[@klen7642]

Still hypergolics aye. Hahahahahahaha

[@himerd320]

bruh so kerbal

[@waynerobinson2301]

Good Russia send Putin to walk on moon . Let him walk up and down and across and lay down and make shape of angels with wings .

[@Nnneemo]

Flying "cancer comet" high toxic oxidant high toxic propellant.

[@prehensileman7254]

Yeah if it ever flew which it didn't

[@SSEF1000]

зачем жечь столько керосина? для такой массы надо уже ядерный двигатель

[@maximmnukhin1145]

Она не на керосине, а на НДМГ/АТ, там должны были стоять РД-270. И да, был вариант УР-700А с ЯРД и вариант с экзотической парой водород/фтор на 3-й ступени. Также рассматривалась пара пентаборан/АТ для РД-270М.

[@SSEF1000]

@@maximmnukhin1145 а вот это НДМГ/АТ менее дорогостоящее чем керосин?

[@maximmnukhin1145]

@@SSEF1000 дорогие, ядовитые компоненты. Да, НДМГ дороже керосина. Зато они самовоспламеняются при соприкосновении, что немного облегчает конструкцию ЖРД. В удельном импульсе проигрывают паре кислород-керосин.

[@riyadhfirdausehh]

Soviet rockets always look like made in kerbal.

[@MikeLabauve]

Work for spacex

[@user-bb7yv7gw8g]

👍👍👍👋👋👋

[@AllesIstEnergie2024]

U need better graphics ...

[@simio1337]

There's no full shot of the rocket at lift off, so much cgi for nothing.

[@canadianaviation318]

simio1337 Its an animation dumbshit

[@simio1337]

CGI = Computer Generated Images. Who's the dumbsh*t now??

[@canadianaviation318]

simio1337 I got mixed up with other things sorry

[@eannamcnamara9338]

An animation made on a computer