The newly appointed head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Igor Komarov, initiated the establishment of a working group to put the task to review the future of the Russian manned space flight, reported by Tass.
The head of space agency requires the result of a working group During this month.
« Me a working group with the participation of research institutions and the prime contractor for manned space flight – RSC” Energia “. The group task is in the short term, literally within a month, to submit answers to the basic questions: the future use of the ISS, the possibility of strategic alliances in the field of space research, the prospect of creating a new space station », – quotes Komarova” Izvestia ” .
The head of the Russian Space Agency said that the conclusions and recommendations of the expert group will be taken into account in the preparation of an updated version of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 years, which is planning to adopt in 2015. Research projects that fall into the program will receive funding in the next decade. Plans outside the program are discussed in additional documents, such as the concept of a national program of development of the Moon and the long-term program of development of deep space.
One of the members of the working group reported “Izvestia” that the exploration of the Moon will remain a strategic goal of Russian space exploration, but in the space agency may delay some projects, such as new spacecraft, created specifically for the lunar mission, or extra rocket capacity from 70 to 80 tons.
« Project superheavy carrier, actively promote team Ostapenko, rather all the working group will be postponed for the future. An alternative could be a heavy version of “Angara” with breeding load into orbit in several stages, with subsequent assembly directly on the orbit », – the newspaper quoted a source in the Russian Space Agency Working Group.
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