Construction cosmodrome “East” is behind schedule – Independent Newspaper

After the “Angara” launch yet
 and extra heavy rocket

Head of Roscosmos Oleg Ostapenko showed President Vladimir Putin, How is the work at the cosmodrome “East”.
 Photos from the official website of the president of Russia

 

Russia will begin work on the super-heavy rocket. The green light to these works gave yesterday the president – said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. The new project will cost 200 billion rubles. Super-heavy rocket will start being built now with the cosmodrome “East”. Yesterday, President Vladimir Putin visited the construction site of Baikonur and criticized subordinates for slippage. Roscosmos plans in the future to use the spaceport “East” for exploration of the Moon and Mars Exploration.

  
 

Continuing to tour the east of the country Vladimir Putin yesterday visited the part of the federal highway “Amur”, and then visited the construction site of the cosmodrome “East” in the Amur region.

  
 

The construction of the spaceport was launched in 2012, the first run of his planned at the end of 2015 – it will launch rocket “Soyuz-2″. And in 2018 will launch from the Baikonur manned rocket “Angara».

  
 

«East” will be the base for transport and cargo ships and orbital station modules, it will be associated with the implementation of human spaceflight programs as well as the exploration and development of the celestial bodies – primarily the Moon and Mars. Because of the proximity to the equator, the rocket launch site will be able to carry 20% more payload. Equipment launch complex should be ready to conduct at least 10 launches per year.

  
 

The construction of the spaceport also implies the creation and development of a modern social infrastructure for the people who will work on it. For example, it is planned to build 40 homes on the 12 th. Inhabitants. While inherent construction only eight houses. The president did not like such a pace. Putin also pointed out the problems with the terms of the construction of the spaceport. Lag in basic facilities ranges from 30 to 55 days, while in the construction involved half of workers than needed – 6 th. Annually instead of 12-15 thousand. Man.

  
 

It is necessary to monitor and coordinate the construction works themselves as well as their financing, to avoid unnecessary disruption and increase spending. According to the president, “in the construction of the spaceport we invest serious money”: from 2011 to the launch site was already spent 100 billion rubles., In 2015, planned 50 billion rubles. Coordination of all works will Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who will lead the relevant commission.

  
 

Rogozin said yesterday that despite the budget cuts and sanctions pressure on Russia, the work must be done with high quality and all the plans of space launch until 2020, must be implemented. “You can have anything interesting to draw plans, to report to his superiors, they say, that we will have such constellations, and then, when they crumble to launch rocket, the plans remain on paper” – quoted Deputy Prime Minister Interfax. “Without any moans,” as Rogozin said, it is necessary to bring to mind the reform of the aerospace industry and the creation of a unified Rocket and Space Corporation (ACCD).

  
 

The head of Roscosmos Oleg Ostapenko, in turn, offered yesterday to save money by pledging the capability for launching heavy rocket “Angara”. Instead of the planned four – two in Plesetsk, two on the “East” – you can make two: one in Plesetsk and “East”. And the money saved spent on the creation of a new super-heavy rockets.

  
 

According to Rogozin, Putin yesterday gave the green light to begin work on the creation of a Russian super-heavy rockets. For the first time on the work on such a project was announced by the president. “This means that after the development of the whole family of missiles” Angara “- light, medium and heavy – we get to create missiles have completely different class – not 7, 15, 25 tons, and 120-150 tons,” – said vice- Prime. Creating a super-heavy rockets could begin after 2020.

  
 

For about known how many super-heavy rocket cost budget – at least 200 billion rubles. Such estimates are given in the project of Roskosmos “Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 years” (PCF), which is sent to the government for approval. By the way, as previously estimated in the Russian Space Agency, the development of “Angara” cost the budget more than 160 billion rubles. At this spending does not end there. Also, according to the PCF, for testing rocket “Soyuz-2″ from the cosmodrome “East” Roscosmos still need about 14 billion rubles.

  
 

In this project, “the Federal Space Program” spelled out ambitious plans. In 2020, the Federal Space Agency will begin to develop the lunar orbital station, and in 2025 will be approved preliminary designs to create modules for future lunar station. Until 2025, in a given direction Roscosmos requesting $ 2.6 billion rubles. The composition of the lunar module, the station will include laboratory, power module and a node module for docking ships. In this laboratory module will be based on the updated autonomous laboratory “Oka-T-2″, which also need to create – for 14.5 billion rubles. It also provides work for the development of advanced medical and life support systems for the crew lunar station. It will cost 700 million rubles.

  
 

In addition to the exploration of the Moon Roskosmos plans to study the atmosphere and the soil of Mars as part of the project “EkzoMars”, which will spend about 6 billion rubles. This joint project with the European Space Agency project. It is expected that the funds will be spent on the rocket “Proton-M”, adapted to tasks running missions in 2016 and 2018, landing module for the mission in 2018, the complex scientific equipment, ground control.

  
 

Thus, if you add up all the costs for the construction of the cosmodrome “East”, as well as planned in the project PCF costs of launching from the Baikonur rocket “Soyuz-2″ for the development of super-heavy rocket and projects for the development of the Moon and to Mars, including also already spent money on “Angara”, then it turns out that the space for the Russian budget costs about 600 billion rubles.

  
 

However, there is no guarantee that this amount does not change after adjusting for the cost of the space state program, the realization of which the government has already started in April 2014. We are talking about the government program “Space activities of Russia in 2013-2020 years”, according to which in the space projects of the budget will be allocated nearly 2 trillion rubles. up to 2020.

  
 

The program should be “deployed orbital constellation of spacecraft in order to meet the needs of the state in the amount of 78 spacecraft in 2015, 113 spacecraft in 2020.” Also provided for the deployment of the state program of the Russian segment of the International Space Station as part of the six modules – in 2015, seven modules – in 2018.