Moscow. May 5. INTERFAX - Roscosmos has signed a contract with the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia to develop a draft design of the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS) for 2.7 billion rubles, follows from the data of the public procurement portal.
The contract was signed between Roscosmos State Corporation and PJSC RSC Energia as part of the development work on the topic: "Creation of the space complex of the Russian orbital station".
According to the portal, the contract price is almost 2.7 billion rubles.
According to Roscosmos, the preliminary design of the national station will be carried out in two stages.
"The first one provides for the analysis of scenarios for the deployment and inclination of the target orbit, the calculation of the cost of delivering 1 kg of cargo to the station, the deployment of the initial configuration of the station and the transition of spacecraft from the ROS orbit to the circumlunar orbit," the state corporation's website says.
The second stage includes the development of a draft design and technical specifications of the station options, as well as consideration of the possibilities of providing the station with communications, issues of crew training, functioning in unmanned and manned modes, the state corporation reports.
Russia, as reported, has decided to build its own orbital station, an exit from the International Space Station (ISS) project is being considered, and this is due to the deterioration of the technical condition of the Russian segment of the station.
In addition, against the background of the aggravation of Russian-American relations due to the situation in Ukraine, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that further cooperation on the ISS is possible only if sanctions are lifted from the Russian space industry. On April 2, Rogozin said that the state corporation would prepare its proposals to the country's leadership on the timing of the termination of Russia's participation in the ISS project.
Rogozin reported that about 80% of the equipment of the Russian segment of the ISS has exhausted its resource and the cost of its maintenance after 2025 will be comparable to the cost of creating a new station.
It was reported that Russia may withdraw from the ISS project from 2025, transferring responsibility for its segment to station partners. At the same time, it was noted that Russia can continue to support its segment with the financial participation of the United States.
An alternative would be the creation of a national orbital station, the first module of which is planned to be launched in 2025, and the deployment will be completed in 2035.
On July 31, the Scientific and Technical Council of Roscosmos approved the creation of a new Russian orbital station.
The ISS is scheduled to be completed in 2028, by which time Roscosmos should launch a new Russian orbital station.
On September 21, the Scientific and Technical Council of Roscosmos and the Space Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences approved the concept of the new station and recommended submitting it to the Government of the Russian Federation.
Russia will be able to finance the construction of a new orbital station itself, but it is also ready for cooperation, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on April 19, noting that the station could be "a kind of intermediate point for flights and exploration of the Moon, lunar space."
