Roscosmos refused the Moon and the asteroid protection – Express-News

20.01 | 16:55

Federal Space Agency decided to reduce the Federal Space Program (FCP) to 1.4 trillion rubles. As a result – the decision drew a halt and, in some cases, the transfer of many programs. They included: a manned mission to the moon, the development of supernovae launch vehicles and the creation of monitoring and protecting our planet asteroid threat.

Some experts argue that such decisions are not only the depreciation of the ruble, and the global economic environment .

Roscosmos had to postpone the project of creation of space rocket complex (KRK) to return the first stage.

Also, moved from 2030 to 2035 the first manned flight to the moon. Recall, the experts were going to send extra heavy carrier rocket from the Baikonur East. At its creation was to be allocated from the budget of about 2 trillion rubles.

It is also excluded from the PCF plans to develop technologies to detect Earth-threatening asteroids. The draft program of the Russian Space Agency in April 2015, specify the amount of the project cost – 1.75 billion rubles.

Also according to the newspaper News , from a project of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 years, excluding work on creating a reusable first stage prospective missile system. Thus spared the state budget by 12.5 billion rubles, which were planned for this job.

Returns the first stage rockets began to develop the Khrunichev Center. His models are not just exhibited at the aerospace show in Zhukovsky.

In 2011, it was decided to make a preliminary design of the system, what to allocate 250 million rubles. In 2013, commissioned by the Khrunichev Center studies were conducted landing characteristics of the layout of reusable winged block MRCA. The studies were conducted in the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute Zhukovsky. However, due to budget cuts by the Federal Space Program from two to 1.4 trillion rubles, the project was withdrawn from the program and minimized. The move of the government was met at the space agency to understand, moreover, that this development meant the rather distant future.

The idea of ​​using recycled the first stage of the rocket became popular after the experiments on the landing of the first stage of the rocket Falcone 9, the creator of the company SpaceX Elon Musk. Russian concept differs from the concept of mask: the Russian stage, opening the wings, transformed into the plane, while at the mask stage descends vertically on the stand.