The work must be completed by November 15, 2025
MOSCOW, April 13. /TASS/. Roscosmos plans to spend 1.88 billion rubles on development work (R & D) to create a complex of landing areas and primary maintenance of the return vehicle of the manned transport ship "Eagle", follows from the materials posted on the portal of public procurement.
According to the terms of reference, "the purpose of performing the ROC is to create a complex of landing areas and primary maintenance of the return vehicle (VA) of the manned transport ship."
The work must be completed from the moment of signing the contract and until November 15, 2025. The technical specification states that the complex should include means of evacuation of the crew from the returned vehicle, means of its primary post-flight maintenance, auxiliary and training facilities, and technical systems. "Regular landing areas should have the following characteristics: areas are selected on the land territories of Russia; areas should be of limited size, but not less than the specified accuracy of landing VA; the height of the terrain above sea level [should be] no more than 500 m," the technical task says.
At the same time, the landing areas should be located in a deserted place, and rivers, swamps and reservoirs should occupy no more than 5% of their territory.
About the ship " Eagle"
On February 12, the general designer of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities, Alexey Bogomolov, reported that the Orel spacecraft would land in the Orenburg region after the space flight. According to him, the release of the draft design, which defined the requirements, the composition of the equipment and the technology of work with the ship's return vehicle in the areas of its landing, has been successfully completed.
The promising space manned spacecraft "Eagle" (former name "Federation") is being created as part of the Russian lunar program. The first launch of the" Eagle " without astronauts on board is scheduled for December 15, 2023 from the Vostochny cosmodrome, during this flight, the spacecraft will not dock with the ISS. In 2024, the "Eagle" will perform a second flight (also without astronauts), followed by docking with the station. In 2028, it should make a manned flyby of the moon.
