Roskosmos will reduce the maintenance costs of the ISS – News

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A draft Federal Space program for the years 2016-2025 (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 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 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 1,521 trillion rubles 10 years.

Basically underwent reduction section manned missions: from the PCF cut long-term projects of the “Lunar Program”: “Creating a lunar Runway Complex “(ROC” PPTK-2 “),” Creation of a lunar orbital station “(ROC” VOC Phase 1 “),” Creation of a lunar base “(ROC” LB Phase 1 “),” Creation of a lunar space suit “(OCD “LB Lskaf”), “Creation of the robot software on the Moon” (ROC “LB-Robot”).

In addition to this project of PCF-25, struck out a number of projects linked to the ISS, giving up such works as “Creating a convertible module” (ROC “PPOI (TM)”) and “Creating energy module” (ROC “PPOI (EM)»).

construction works already started 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 (NEM launch in 2019). The construction and development of new modules reserved 12.6 billion rubles.

Once the ISS is the article “Formation and research -Technical support for the program of scientific and applied research and experiments aboard the Russian segment of the ISS … The definition of the resource elements of 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- investment in the ISS very probability: RSC “Energy”, for example, has stated that it plans to start regular programs sent to the 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, former Head of the Russian Space Agency’s manned space programs Alexei Krasnov in an interview with “Izvestia” claimed that the content of the ISS costs $ 6-6.5 billion per year, of which NASA’s budget covers half of the remaining costs divided the European Space Agency, the Japanese Space Agency Roscosmos and . 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 cosmonautics attention can not be evaded, so the present sequestration is quite logical – says scientific director of the Institute of Space Policy, 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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