The project of development of the moon called unprofitable
The Council Dmitry Rogozin criticized the development projects of the moon. The project to create a lunar vehicle and heavy missiles Council criticized in the issues of financial viability.
The expert Council of the Chairman of the Board of the Military-industrial Commission of Russia criticized Federal space program proposed by Roscosmos. The project itself is considered to be one of the most expensive in the coming years and implies a manned mission to the moon and establish a manned base. For this rocket and space company Energia designs manned transport vehicle, which is supposed to start in 2021 without first inhabitants of our planet, and then in 2024 already with people in the orbital process of the expedition. Only in 2030 it is planned to send a ship to the moon.
The Council criticized the proposed project generally in Economics. For heavy media capacity 80-90 tons, can not find a commercial loads. Media of similar dimensions will start at best twice a year. In consequence of the need to maintain infrastructure, productive forces, groups overheads will make heavy media is extremely expensive. Historical experience demonstrates that even effective projects of heavy vehicles (such as the Saturn V and "Energy") were closed for financial and political reasons, with the arrival of the next decline. The missile used in the lunar program should be operated as a paid media that will enable you to transfer times of crisis and cuts in government funding, quoted by Izvestia, the decision of the Board.
Beginning a similar project will be limited in 214,6 billion. But the main part of the funding will have on the 2nd stage during the creation of the rocket, payload 160-180 tons. It is obliged to send to the moon ship together with the landing module. The creation of such missiles from zero may be worth more than 1 trillion rubles. Taking into account the opinion of experts, the need to create fresh ships and missiles are not clear - "No obvious advantages in comparison with the "Union" in larger mass, the absence of home compartment, the need to create a new booster". In the Russian Federal space Agency has submitted that the emergence of this report may give rise to a solid check all projects in the conquest of the moon.