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The budget of the federal target program (FTP ) “Maintain, develop and use the GLONASS system for 2012-2020″ for the current year decided to cut more than 5 billion rubles. Such data are contained in the draft law “On Amendments to the Federal Law” On the Federal Budget for 2015 “, which last week was passed by the Parliament at first reading.
After spending cuts by the Federal Target Program GLONASS for the current year will amount to 42.5 billion rubles – so the program budget cuts suffered by more than 10%, which is the average of the estimated size of sequestration for the program group” Space the activities of the Russian Federation for 2013-2020 ».
The bill states that as a result of budget cuts the federal program will not be GLONASS made contributions to the state in the authorized capital of JSC “Siberian Devices and Systems” concern “PVO” Almaz-Antey “, Russian Corporation Rocket and Space Instrumentation and Information Systems, NPP” Salute “,” Plant “Navigator”, “Kvant” and “Information Satellite Systems to them. Academician MF Reshetnev ».
GLONASS federal target program was adopted in March 2012, with a budget of 326.4 billion rubles. For the money the authors of the program promised to increase positioning accuracy with 2.5-3 m and 0.5-0.6 m. In sum 326400000000 laid fabrication of rocket technology to launch satellites, creating themselves satellites (including devices next generation) services in their start-up and management constellation, as well as the creation and maintenance of ground infrastructure of GLONASS. Last year, the budget was cut by the Federal Target Program GLONASS commissioned by the Government to 310 billion rubles, which, according to the developers of the program, does not affect its targets.
It is noteworthy that the Finance Ministry proposes to cut the budget of FTP GLONASS and other space programs back in 2013: the proposed agency then draft budget proposed to reduce funding for the financing of the state program “Space activities of Russia in 2013-2020″ on 12 7 billion rubles in 2015 and 40 billion rubles – in 2016. The reaction at the time headed Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin on the Finance Ministry’s proposals was sharp – he wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, where he gave the following forecast: “Reducing the amount of financing for the purchase of rocket and space technology does not allow for the production and launch of the required number of satellites of the GLONASS system, which will the degradation of the orbital group …. The main funding GLONASS is concentrated in the development work “Glonass-QC-In” and “Glonass-QC-H”, which developed a new generation of space complex that provides GLONASS competitiveness on a global level with characteristics better than the system GPS ».
If taken literally word Popovkin, the consequences of the regular budget sequester FTPs GLONASS affect the competitiveness of the Russian navigation system, which now competes only with GPS, and in the coming years will compete in absentia with the European satellite navigation system Galileo and the Chinese system “Beidou».
According to Nikolai Testoedova, General Director of JSC “ISS Reshetnev name”, the manufacturer of GLONASS satellites in the near future degradation characteristics of GLONASS is not threatened.
– Today we have in custody are 8 satellites “Glonass-M”, they are ready to run at any time – says Testoyedov. – This year we will make the ninth satellite. Today orbital group is stable, and we will be launching satellites only when necessary.
At the same time the pace of transition of the system to a new generation of satellites “Glonass-K” several relegated: in the original version of FTP GLONASS planned to start the update satellite constellation in 2016, but in fact the state contracts for the production of new generation has not yet been concluded.
According Testoedova, slippage in this case is already half a year. Official representative of the Russian Space Agency Igor Bourenkov explained that the competition for the contract to produce “Glonass-K” to be announced in April this year.
Correction budget of FTP GLONASS Roscosmos comment succinctly: “These changes take place in the framework of the budget sequestration».
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