The cost of building the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) will amount to 600 billion rubles, Andrey Elchaninov, First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos, said in an interview with Interfax.
According to Yelchaninov, the amount will become clear after the preliminary design, but, according to preliminary estimates, it is 300-600 billion rubles for all ships and infrastructure.
The first stage of construction, which is supposed to create a functional core of the station (scientific and power module, nodal and gateway modules, base unit) is estimated at 350 billion rubles. The second stage is to attach the target modules.
Yelchaninov said that on April 12, the head of Roskosmos, Yuri Borisov, will report to the President of the Russian Federation on the progress of work on the design of the station.
- Roscosmos first showed a mockup of the new Russian orbital station in August 2022. A month earlier, Roskosmos chief Yuri Borisov said Russia would withdraw from the ISS project by 2024.
- However, in November, Borisov called it premature to talk about Russia’s withdrawal from the ISS project, and in late December, the head of the state corporation for manned programs, Sergei Krikalev, said that Roscosmos had proposed to the government to extend the operation. of the Russian segment of the ISS until 2028 (current agreement expires in 2024).
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Source: RB
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