MOSCOW, December 15 – RIA Novosti, Yekaterina Zgirovskaya. The head of the Russian Space Agency Oleg Ostapenko on Monday confirmed that the Russian Federal Space Agency is considering the creation of the high national Space Station, this issue may be included in the new Federal Space program.
According to him, this station can solve problems of various kinds, including a base for the lunar program, and will also help in monitoring the safety of the Arctic, which is currently being paid special attention in the world.
Creating a national station may begin as early as 2017, for Russia, it will replace the existing satellites ISS. To do this, should be sent into orbit modules, which were scheduled to “add” to the International Space Station, the exploitation of which Russia intends to cease in 2020 for political reasons. If it had not intervened geopolitics, the station would have lived four years longer.
expensive and impractical
Creation of Russian national space station could cost the treasury tens of billions of dollars, said a member of the Russian Academy Cosmonautics Tsiolkovsky Andrew, son of John.
“Creating your own Russian station – in my opinion, pointless and expensive project. There is no purpose except to maintain afloat a few space companies have a vested interest in this, there is no” – he told RIA Novosti, when information about the possibility of launching such a station for the first time appeared in the media.
The fact that the need for a new station in orbit no, he was supported by the Academy colleague Igor Marinin. He believes that it is simply “a way of knocking out additional funds”, which can be avoided.
“You can not run to the International Space Station three modules, which we still have not started there, and an easy to operate stand-alone station which will not be constantly visited. The question is – do we need such a station? ” – Said Marina’s.
According to him, if the country’s leadership wants to make space industry locomotive industry, it is necessary superproject, which can be exploration of the Moon and the construction of a lunar base. Creating a space station does not bring anything new either in Russian industry or science, he said.
“In my opinion, to get involved in this project probably is not particularly important. Only for political reasons, to have Russia had its own station. And if you take a scientific point of view, we work and work on the ISS. Any problem exclusive to the national goal, we also can not put – it is unlikely in the near future will be the base platform for our flight to the Moon ” – said Alexander Zheleznyakov RACTs Member.
He explained that, when allocating budgets Roskosmos will have to use public money. And their selection to the Federal Space Program – this is purely a political decision, said Zhelezniakov.
From west to east
According to Jonah, the creation of a new space station, it makes sense that if Russia will start a similar project in conjunction with the new strategic partners, which today are the Russian Federation, India, China, Brazil and South Africa. Such cooperation would significantly reduce the cost of the process, so the BRICS summit in the summer of Ufa of the Russian Federation should be invited to such a project, the expert said.
“If we do not see the new challenges in space, in addition to creating the next version of the space station, in this case it is necessary to do an international project with other partners – the BRICS countries. It is our long-term partners, and last year proved it. We’ve got another five years before the end of the project of the International Space Station, it will have time to replace the 2020 one project to others. Our countries have carriers have modules “, – said the son of Jonah.
In turn RACTs Member Alexander Zheleznyakov noted that relate to international cooperation in space, now we must with great caution, given the direct relationship to events occurring in the world. Politically justified and it would be logical to start with the new space station to do so together with our closest neighbors – Belarus and Kazakhstan.
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