Media: Roscosmos turned the project returned to the rocket first stage – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, January 20 – RIA Novosti. Roscosmos will not continue to develop missile complex Returns the first stage, the newspaper “Izvestia” on Wednesday.

According to the publication of the draft Federal Space Program (FCP) 2016-2025 years has been ruled out development work on creating the first reusable rocket stage. The newspaper notes that the earlier version of FCP on such developments planned to spend 12.5 billion rubles.

The project was excluded from the project FCP during the last budget cuts from two to 1.4 trillion rubles. According to sources of the newspaper in the scientific and technical council of the Russian Space Agency, the termination of these developments “has not caused much discussion in the space agency, since we are talking about the development of the complex on a fairly long-term perspective and say with certainty today, need such a system in the future is difficult.”

As the newspaper writes, returns the first stage rockets began to develop in the Center. Khrunichev. As one of the proposed projects was created reusable space-rocket system.

In 2013, commissioned by the Centre to them. Khrunichev Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute Zhukovsky (TsAGI) conducted research stage landing characteristics returned later TsAGI press office published the appearance of the layout is being tested.