Réductions dans le budget spatial russe en vue...

31.08.2012 / 12:05 space budgets were laid


The latest issue of the newspaper "Izvestia" published an article by Ivan Cheberko "Space budget were laid off." The full text of this small volume, but very curious in content publishing.

"The government cuts the Federal Space Program and Budget FTP on GLONASS. Roskosmos head Vladimir Putin warned the global implications of underfunding industry

"The loss of Russian leadership in manned space flight, the degradation of the GLONASS constellation, frustrating period of forming the Baikonur East" - such prospects for the space industry for the next five years, not the critic sees the Russian Space Agency, and its head, Vladimir Popovkin.
The decline of the industry with devastating consequences Popovkin outlined in a letter to Vladimir Putin. According to a senior source in the Federal Space Agency, the head of department wrote an emotional letter to the president, learned of plans to cut funding for the Ministry of Finance relating to space activities. First of all, the Federal Space Program (FCP) - now under discussion the draft federal budget for 2013 at its events planned 114.7 billion rubles, or 18.9 billion rubles less than in the passport of the PCF.
Parameters of the source of funding the space industry - the PCF in 2006-2015 - were made ​​in relatively prosperous period of the mid-noughties, when the cost of everything to do with space, began to grow exponentially. At that time it was decided to reconstruct the GLONASS, which was adopted by a separate multi-billion dollar federal program. In 2007, it was decided to build a new cosmodrome in the Far East for $ 350 billion.
Now times have changed, and the government spending on space-where he cuts and freezes somewhere. For example, the budgetary costs of FTP for GLONASS frozen at the insistence of the Ministry of Finance at the level of 2011 - is 19.3 billion rubles plus deflator. Thus, the draft budget law for 2013 will be allocated to GLONASS 20.6 billion rubles, in 2014 - 22.2 billion rubles, in 2015 - 23.7 billion rubles. This is significantly less than that requested the Federal Space Agency and is written in the passport FTP on GLONASS. For example, at the 2015 miss by FTP 26.6 billion, which means that Roskosmos will receive half the money than he promised passport program approved just something six months ago.
"The proposed Finance resource providing lead to degradation of the GLONASS constellation to the 2016-2018 years to 10 spacecraft, delay the deployment of new systems" Glonass-K ". Consumers would lose the possibility of continuous determination of its location, confidence in the system of the international community will be lost "- that describes the consequences of under-funding in a letter to the head of Roscosmos Putin.
In the program of financing the infrastructure of East sequestration planned minimum: in 2013-2014 Roscosmos receive the full amount (13 and 25.5 billion, respectively), and in 2015 will miss 4.4 billion rubles - funding for this to reach 27.2 rubley.Takoe billion budget cuts likely means confirmation by the Government of its obligations under the establishment of the Far Eastern cosmodrome. At the same time, space infrastructure financed by the East of the PCF, and the lack of money for its construction will delay the Baikonur launch at least three years, warns Popovkin. Delay of three years means the transfer of the first run from 2015 to 2018.
Decrease in funding will impact on Russia's plans to create a new manned spacecraft that could deliver astronauts not only to low Earth orbit, but also to distant celestial bodies. Recently, long-term tasks of the Russian space is often called the Moon, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin talked about creating habitable stations on satellite. For exploration of the Moon to build a new manned spacecraft, the project promises to be extremely resource-intensive, according to preliminary estimates, with a budget of at least $ 10 billion in budget cuts will lead to a loss of Russia's leading position in the manned space program, warned the head of Roscosmos, not much thickening of paint. The danger of losing the current monopoly on the delivery of the people to the ISS exists regardless of the financing of the new spacecraft: five years in the future, the U.S. will, most likely, two new manned spacecraft, and the prototype of the new Russian ship dependent on the stage of conceptual design.
According to the supervisor of the Space Policy Institute of Ivan Moiseyev, the deficit financing should think about the concentration of resources.
- We very much want: a new missile, the new manned spacecraft, the new launch site, a base on the moon, the plans sounded amid depressingly low labor productivity in the industry. In this situation it would make sense to give up resources to improve the situation with the efficiency of production, technological change. This would allow to optimize the program in terms of budgets and timelines, - he said. "

31.08.2012 / 17:37 Putin expects the space industry leaders staffing proposals

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on defense and the head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, prepare proposals on personnel matters in the space industry, if that solves the problem, according to RIA Novosti.
At a meeting with the president and Rogozin Popovkin said that to discuss the development of the space industry, and talk about the structural problems in the field.
"I think the question is the structural organization of the industry. If you want to make personnel decisions - make a proposal," - said Putin.
He recalled that a number of decisions have already been taken in the NGO Khrunichev.
"We need to look at and closely allied to structure and improve the legal work in the industry as a whole", - the president.