Domestic space is prepared for the next big step forward. The leading research UNIVERSITY Roscosmos TsNIIMash prepared the concept of creating high-latitude orbital station for inclusion in the Military-industrial Commission (VPK). The project of its creation will discuss in the first quarter of 2015.
"We have prepared a conformable material. We think that they will be considered in the first quarter of this year for sure," TASS quoted first Deputy General Director of the Institute Alexander danyluk. According to him, if the MIC will agree with the proposal, we will talk about the possible inclusion of the project in key documents such as the Federal space program.
Expert assures that technical difficulties with the construction of a high-latitude station can not arise. The basis of a new orbital station Russia is ready to become scientific-power module (SPM) that is created for the ISS in the RSC "Energia".
"The onboard control module is designed to not only handle tasks ISS, but that SPM could work the beginning of a new Russian station", - the document says the company. The complex adopted digital control system research of RSC Energia, on-Board Central computer from the Institute, "Argon", the instrument conditional navigation systems GLONASS and GPS, broadband communication using system relay "Ray".
Earlier some media reported that the new Russian space station can begin to build as early as 2017. It was argued, in particular, that the inclination of its orbit will be 64,8