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Roskosmos Heavy Interstellar Carrier TK-20 "Severstal"
 
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Given how popular it is, it's not going to be cheap.... but there should be no reason why not. The Third one may well use a pair of modified ESA/JAXA fusion reactors as part of some cross-licensing agreement - but won't make it into service until the treaty can be hammered out, works properly apportioned, experts trained, funding acquired and so on and so forth. 2027 is the Minimum, and more like 2030 if it's being built from scratch. That said, there're more mothballed Submarines out there than just the big Akula's. And if you can launch a disarmed ballistic missile submarine.....

Given this size of Severstal, it's probably safer to say anywhere can dock with it. It masses 30,000 tones, easily (going by the standard specifications) and possibly heavier. Docking places is going to take some fancy flying. Part of the reason why it has the two Soyuz capsules is because for smaller transfers of passengers and crew it can be easier just to send the capsule, rather than dock the entire ship.

There are larger bulk-carriers, but these would most operate on orbital-dock to orbital dock route.
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