Roscosmos: start surveillance system “Review-O” is shifted by 5 years – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, April 14 – RIA Novosti. Dates launch a national system of Earth observation shifted five years, the Russian Space Agency spokesman Igor Bourenkov.

Federal Space Agency in October 2012 announced a competition for the creation of a satellite system “Review-O”, consisting of four spacecraft and designed for real-time imagery in Russia, the price of the contract is $ 4.6 billion. To launch satellites “Review-O” is supposed to use a rocket “Soyuz-2-1v” (with block elimination “Volga”), “Roar”, “Angara-1.2″. They have to start from the cosmodrome “Plesetsk” or “Baikonur”. Launch of the first satellite system planned to be implemented as early as this 2015 system in full must earn in 2019.

“Work on OCD” Review-O “will be continued within the framework of the French Communist Party from 2016 onwards. According to the project for the period 2016-2025 the PCF’s launch of spacecraft” Review-O “is planned after 2020,” – said Bourenkov newspaper “Izvestia”.

As the newspaper writes, this is due to the fact that the Khrunichev Center refused to create a system for remote sensing of the Earth “Review-O”.

“As part of the financial restructuring program of the Center Khrunichev company recommended to concentrate on core activities, particularly in the production of launch vehicles “Angara” and “Proton-M” boosters “Breeze” and KVTK and nose cones. After analyzing the current state of the project which is now being conducted to determine the optimal scheme for the use of equipment “Review-O”, the project will be transferred to another performer on a competitive basis “, – told the director of communications” Khrunichev “Alexander sniffing.

According to an informed source of the newspaper in Roskosmos guide the Khrunichev Center has decided to abandon the project “Review-O” in December last year.

“Today, equipment suppliers have already made significant payment for the supply of equipment – in particular, EADS Astrium paid for the production of gyroscopes, sensors and communications equipment for the two spacecraft to 7 million euros,” – said a source in the Russian Space Agency.

In the Russian office of EADS Astrium “News” said that informed the suspension of the project, are sensitive to the problems that have arisen as a result of the restructuring of the space sector, and are willing to discuss options for reformatting the project.