MANUFACTURER OF ROCKET TO DO HOOVER VACUUM CLEANERS
According to the representatives of the Energy, the company will produce about 220 thousand vacuum cleaners in the year. Cooperation with the British will start production in the Russian popular model Alpina-225. And the engines for the Alpine will be collected in the suburban queen, and the cost of the Anglo-Russian vacuum cleaner is about $ 80.
This is not the first step of the national space corporation towards diversification of its business: For more than 10 years, Energy is a manufacturer of vacuum cleaners and food processors, manufactured under license from the Japanese company Sanyo. Employees of the corporation believe that domestic consumers (especially the middle-aged and older) still trust the quality of products collected in the rocket and space industry. Therefore, the representatives of Energy confident that the new vacuum cleaners will enjoy good demand.
Recall a few days earlier CNews.ru wrote that the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia after the recent accident unit dm3 (which resulted in an intermediate orbit remained the world#39;s largest European telecommunications satellite Astra-1K) in danger of losing overseas orders, bringing her main income.
In particular, according to Kommersant, developed by the use of booster dm3 intends to formally abandon the US-Russian company ILS. Such a decision could be fatal to the Energy, receiving their salaries from the main commercial space activities. Demarche ILS may encourage similar step and other overseas providers - BLS (Boeing Launch Services), is engaged in marketing of the project Sea Launch: it used to launch vehicles, Zenit-3SL applies upper stage Block DM-SL, based at the ill-fated dm3.
By the way, for the last six years boosters DM series, created under the Soviet lunar program at the end of the 60s, not just summed customers. Thus, in February 1996 due to a malfunction of the unit on an unplanned orbit was launched military communications satellite Fringe, in November 1996, has fallen into the Pacific Ocean interplanetary station Mars-8 cost $ 300 million, and in December 1997 nonisobaric orbit was commercial satellite AsiaSat-3 (Hong Kong).
One can only hope that the new vacuum cleaners that are Energy is going to produce under license of foreign partners will be really reliable for users. Well, if not - then domestic consumers will not greatly offended by the Russian manufacturer: for $ 80 - the amount of really tiny in comparison with the losses that have been incurred by the principal - space - the customers of Energy.
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