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Review on the project of cargo version of the General Planetary Vehicle (GPV) and Geospace Circular Transport System (GCTS) by the author Anatoly Yunitskiy

In his review (in Russian) of the projects "Cargo version of the General Planetary Vehicle" (GPV) and "Geospace Circular Transport System" (GCTS) by the author Anatoly Yunitskiy, Deputy Director on scientific work, Head of a sector at the Institute of mechanics for metal polymer systems under the Belorussian Academy of Sciences, PhD in Engineering Science Yu. Pleskachevskiy notes that "the proposed projects of GCTS and GPV are, in fact, a comprehensive program to create a promising non-rocket space transport, which, if implemented, would reduce the cost of delivering a payload into orbit by tens or hundreds of times compared to rocket systems" and makes a conclusion that "... the difficulties that will arise, be it technological, scientific, economic or socio-political ones, are fundamentally solvable at the present level of science and technology".