Roscosmos need to accelerate the program to explore Mars, says expert - Reuters

MOSCOW, June 11 – RIA Novosti. Russian Space Agency to speed up its programs to develop and explore Mars, otherwise Russia will seriously lag behind other countries, RIA Novosti said the member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky Andrew, son of John.

“Anyone who wants to stay in the trend of the world space development should be accelerated, forget about the last 30-40 years a relaxed, slow development of space – the development of new in 1950-1960-accelerating. Who does not accelerate, he will fall behind the train Despite all past achievements.’s nothing personal, it’s just a space, “- he said.

Russian scientific mission “Phobos-Grunt” may be repeated in the years 2022-2025, said Tuesday the head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin. The automatic interplanetary station “Phobos-Grunt” – the first in 15 years, the Russian AMS is designed to deliver soil samples from the Martian satellite – was launched on the night of November 9, 2011. Sustainer propulsion plant was not involved and was not able to translate the unit on the flight path to Mars. “Phobos-Grunt” remained in Earth orbit, and on January 15 the wreckage of the probe fell into the Pacific Ocean. The cost of the mission “Phobos-Grunt” was estimated at 5 billion rubles.

According to experts, the word of the year 2025 from the mouth of the official sound ambiguous. “For anyone clear that the responsibility for these promises and spent (money) for the project with a time horizon will be someone else. Smells certain situation,” Shah or dies, or the donkey will die, “- added the son of John.

Earlier

the then president of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Osipov reported that repeat the mission “Phobos-Grunt” may take place after the implementation of the Russian lunar mission. Russian lunar program provides for the launch in 2015 of planting the probe “Luna-Glob-1″, intended primarily for testing the landing platform, a year later – the orbiter “Luna-Glob-2″, and in 2017 – a heavy landing craft “Luna resource “with an expanded set of scientific instruments.