Wednesday, June 29, 2016

ISS partners agreed to develop a lunar space station – Lenta.ru

ISS Partners formed a script to create an international lunar visited platform, which could be a first step towards the development of deep space. This “Izvestiya” reported in the rocket and space corporation “Energy».

According to the head of the press center of RSC “Energia” Irina Romanova, initiated a discussion of the potential shape of the platform and the requirements for its elements and interface in use.

it is expected that the proposals for the future program of the creation and operation of international lunar visited the platform will be presented to the heads of agencies – the ISS program partners in the first half of 2017

Discussion of opportunities for cooperation for space exploration beyond. low Earth orbit on the ISS partners began in 2011 as part of the expert working group under the ISS program (IEWG – ISS experts working group).

in the autumn of 2014 was signed “The plan of studying the ISS opportunities for deep space exploration” for the implementation of which a working group was formed IECST. It examines possible scenarios for the future of the international program, which would allow to work out the key elements and start the mission to study deep space.

The programs include study of near-moon space, moon, and Mars and asteroids, said Romanov. “Panel concluded that the feasibility of establishing an international lunar visited the platform that would be the first step towards the development of outer space”, -. She said

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European heavy-class rocket Ariane  5 on the launch site Kourou July 28 2014

In December 2015 it was reported that from the last version of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 years (PCF) deleted all work on a manned mission to the moon. In particular, seized the lunar runway complex and lunar orbital station, a lunar base and the lunar space suit and other projects associated with the development of the Earth’s satellite.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the space industry the government, He has repeatedly spoken about the need to explore the Moon. At the same time, he agreed with the inconvenience of allocation of large sums for the preparation of space missions to the Moon and Mars in August last year. According to him, in the current state budget space ambitions would undermine the economic interests of the country

ISS – an international project involving 14 countries. United States, Russia, Japan, Canada and the members of the European Space Agency (ESA), Belgium Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, France, Switzerland, Sweden.

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