Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic - Space Program

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Bring your Soviet republics to the final frontier with a space program befitting your glorious nation. Research new technologies and establish new industries that allow you to manufacture, assemble, and launch rockets into space – from Sputnik 1 to the Vostok program and more, be the first to enter the cosmos and engage in an unprecedented duel with nature.

To push beyond the skies is no simple thing, and with Space Program you can take on the complexities, struggles, and successes of the projects that brought humanity to the stars:

• Build universities to research technology specific to space exploration – learn how to refine and store new types of fuel, unlock new modules to build more advanced rockets over the years, and push for increasingly complex mission capabilities ranging from launching your first satellite into different types of orbit through to sending life and even humans into space.
• Build a mission control center to manage your launch sites, determine mission parameters for upcoming launches, and monitor what you’ve already put into orbit. Open engine testing facilities to reduce the likelihood of a failed launch, and plan ahead for the inevitable – nearby urban centers are at risk of disastrous outcomes should the worst come to pass.
• Establish production chains that convert oil, power, chemicals, and water into kerosene, N2O4, and UDMH – essential fuels and oxidizers for spaceflight. Build new oil refineries and plants alongside hypergolic storage facilities to manage their supply, and invest in new vehicles that can ship these materials across your republic by rail and road to ensure your rockets are fueled at their launch pads prior to liftoff.
• The construction of rockets is a feat of science and industry – each part must be individually built at manufacturing halls before being shipped to and put together at assembly halls of varying sizes. While your scientists may develop new and advanced blueprints at universities, your industrial capabilities must keep up to ensure a steady supply of the electronics, steel, plastics, fabrics, and mechanical components needed to build these powerful machines. What’s more, the capacity to ship these components and completed rockets is limited to specific vehicles, introducing new considerations to your growing republic as it seeks to explore the final frontier.
• Standard and Proton launch sites will allow you to launch different types of payloads into space – watch them lift off, go through their stages, and settle into their orbits around Earth. Beyond satellites, you can even establish space stations, sending components up individually to rendezvous and dock in orbit.
• The exploration of space unlocks great opportunities on the ground – build observatories and planetariums to attract tourists and citizens alike, celebrate your successes with new sculptures, and take advantage of the technological advances of the era through the use of solar heating plants and more.
• A brand new campaign takes you to Baikonur at the start of the 1960s. With initial infrastructure and industry already in place alongside a healthy and happy population, you can begin your space program with an existing foundation and learn the inner workings of all the new systems and mechanics at play.

Take on the immense challenge of piercing the skies as you bring your Soviet republics to the cosmos with their very own Space Program.