12.01.2016 03:43
A draft Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 years (PCF-25), the Federal Space Agency was forced to cut the cost of operating the International Space Station (ISS) by almost 30 billion rubles, the newspaper “Izvestia».
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 of the station, as well as Software 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.
In general, the reduction subjected section manned missions: from the PCF cut long-term projects of the “Lunar Program”: “Creation of a lunar landing complex” (ROC “PPTK-2″), “Creation of a lunar orbital station” (ROC “VOC Phase 1″), “Creation lunar base “(ROC” LB Phase 1 “),” Creation of a lunar space suit “(ROC” LB Lskaf “),” Creation of the robot software on the Moon “(ROC” LB Robot »).
Plus, the project FCP-25 struck out a number of projects linked to the ISS, giving up such works as “The creation of the convertible module” (ROC “PPOI (TM)”) and “Creating energy module” (ROC “PPOI (EM)” ).
The construction of already begun modules for the ISS will continue: it a multipurpose laboratory module (MLM launch in 2017), the hub module (UM launch in 2018), and scientific power module ( BEP launch in 2019). The construction and development of new modules reserved 12.6 billion rubles.
Once the ISS is the article “Formation and scientific and technical support for the program of scientific and applied research and experiments aboard the Russian segment of the ISS … Definition of resource elements construction and buildings’ (ROC “ISS Science”) with a budget of 4.2 billion rubles. In this paper, as stated in the draft of the PCF-25, including a plan to finance the “Program of working out in the Russian segment of the ISS elements promising technologies of manned space infrastructure.” Obviously, this is a promising space station that the Russian Federation might be to build on co-financing with one or more of the countries of BRICS. But it is noteworthy that the work to identify forward-looking image of the station (OCD and entitled) of the project FCP-25 disappeared.
Total Roscosmos ISS requests the State 268.9 billion rubles. The total estimate under “Manned flights” in the project PCF-25 – 329.7 billion rubles.
Extra-budgetary investment in the ISS is quite likely: RSC “Energy”, for example, has stated that it plans to start sending regular programs ISS space tourists, each of which pays for the flight of tens of millions of dollars. But in the next 2 years to carry tourists will not work – space on Russian spacecraft purchased by NASA. While not referring to the flow of a serious off-budget, we can calculate that the average ISS Russia is ready to spend 26.8 billion rubles a year, including the construction of its new segments. According to the current exchange rate is approximately $ 360 million.
Earlier, the former head of manned programs Roscosmos Alexei Krasnov in an interview with “Izvestia” claimed that the content of the ISS costs $ 6-6.5 billion per year, of which the budget NASA covers half of the remaining costs divided the European Space Agency, the Japanese Space Agency and Roscosmos. The total contribution of the Russian Space Agency at that time, that is, in the spring of 2013, Krasnov is estimated at $ 1 billion a year.
– When the cut is necessary to seriously manned space program focus can not be evaded, so the present sequestration is quite logical – says scientific director of the Space Policy Institute, Ivan Moiseyev. – 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 (58.2 billion rubles in the project FCP-25. – “News”) is bad for the state of RSC “Energia” – the parent structure of the Russian Space Agency’s manned space program in. So by all means to protect the project, and a huge public relations of the new ship, the name of public elections for him – this is also a kind of protection project.
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