ISS: too expensive for Rosii – St. Petersburg and the World

Roscosmos cut operating costs of the International Space Station by almost 30 billion. rubles. This amount deleted from the draft of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 years.

In the final version of the PCF-25, the Russian Space Agency sent to the ministries, operating costs for the ISS mission control, logistics and transport support of the Russian segment stations, as well as to ensure the program of scientific experiments provided in the amount of 252.1 billion rubles for 10 years (this expenditure budget has 12.6 billion rubles will be from extrabudgetary sources).

The previous version of the PCF-25, sent to departments in April 2015, provides for the financing of the ISS in the amount of 281.4 billion rubles. After the April version of the PCF-25 was considered by the Finance Ministry insisted on the reduction of budget expenditures for space activities, resulting in estimates of the PCF-25 has decreased by a quarter – up to 1.521 trillion rubles for 10 years.

From the PCF cut Projects of “Lunar Program”: “Creating a lunar runway complex”, “Creating a lunar orbital station”, “Creating a lunar base” and others.

Supervisor Space Policy Institute, Ivan Moiseyev said: “When cut falls seriously manned cosmonautics attention not manage, so the current sequestration is quite logical. But at the same time in this section, there are some lower limit – the cost of the ISS. Russia is obliged to maintain and service the station, so there’s a lot to save not succeed. In this situation, it would be logical to abandon the construction of a new manned spacecraft, because if the moon we do not fly, then a vehicle for lunar missions like as long as we do not really need. Prior to the ISS astronauts get on well “union”. However, deletion of such a large project is bad for the state of RSC “Energia” – the parent structure of the Russian Space Agency’s manned space program in. Therefore, the project to protect by all means, and a grand public relations of the new ship, public choice of name for it – it is also a kind of defense of the project ».

The State Corporation for Space Activities” Roskosmos “- Russia’s state-owned corporation, established Dec. 28, 2015 after abolition of the Federal Space Agency.

In January 2015, decided to transform the agency into a public corporation, whose head is appointed Igor Komarov. The period of legal registration of the state corporation will take about six months.

ISS (eng. International Space Station, abbr. ISS) – manned space station, used as a multipurpose space research facility. ISS – a joint international project, which involves 14 countries (in alphabetical order): Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, USA, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan.