Putin will hold a Day of Cosmonautics session with the ISS – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, April 12 -. RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin on Cosmonautics Day will meet with the leaders of the space industry and will direct the communication session with the International Space Station and the cosmodrome East

. “during the videoconference President congratulated the astronauts on their professional holiday, and also heard a report of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and the head of the state corporation” Roscosmos “Igor Komarov on the development of Russian cosmonautics”, – said the Kremlin press service

in the evening that day, the President will visit the festive concert dedicated to the day of cosmonautics and the 55th anniversary of the first manned flight into space.

the first launch from the East

East spaceport being built near the city of Tsiolkovsky (formerly Uglegorsk village) in the Amur region in 2012. He will become the first national cosmodrome of civilian and allow for independent access Russia in space

The first launch of the carrier rocket from the Baikonur expected in 2015, the first manned launch -. 2018, construction was planned to be completed by November 30 last year. In October 2015, Putin familiarized himself with the work, stated the backlog of the period and allowed to move the first launch from the cosmodrome to December 2015 for 2016. The President then expressed the hope that the launch will be able to carry out to the Cosmonautics Day -. April 12

Last week, the Federal Space Agency said that the first ever launch from Vostochny cosmodrome is scheduled for April 27th. It is expected that the first of the Amur Region will launch the rocket-carrier “Soyuz-2.1a”, which will orbit spacecraft “Aist-2D” research satellite of Moscow State University “Lomonosov”, as well as nano-satellite SamSat-218.

The East will run 8-10 starts per year. In turn, the first manned rocket launch with the crew of the International Space Station is scheduled for after 2023

The development of Russian cosmonautics

In 2015, Russia carried out 29 launches of carrier rockets:. 18 starts – from Baikonur, three – from the Guiana space center, one start – from Dombarovsky position area and seven starts – from the Plesetsk cosmodrome

Overall, in 2015, 86 launches of carrier rockets of space appointment was carried out in the world. . In the Russian Federation accounted for 26 starts, including two emergency. As in previous years, the leader in the number of starts is the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which started with 18 missiles.

An important project of the year was the launch of the first ExoMars 2016 ( “exomars 2016″) of the Russian-European mission. Carrier rocket “Proton-M” with the station ExoMars 2016 was launched from Baikonur on March 14. According to Rogozin, the station must arrive at Mars 16 October 2016.

This year, Russia has also launched a remote sensing satellite (ERS) “Resurs-P” №3. Together with the first two spacecraft series “Resurs-P” it is intended to create Russia’s first civilian remote sensing system.

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