Russia to build lunar Soyuz for its own account, reported in the space industry
. Russia will develop modifications of the spacecraft Soyuz For missions to the moon, at its own expense, without financial participation of America, said Last news senior source in the rocket and space industry.
before the General Director of "Rosatom" Dmitry Rogozin, the TV channel "Russia 24" said that NASA asked the Russian side to make a version of the Soyuz spacecraft as a backup manned space transportation system For missions to the moon.
at the request of the Last news , and in true NASA turned to Russia with the initiative to make a duplicate of a manned space system, the American space Agency did not answer. "Roskosmos" were also unable to respond quickly to a request Last news about who will pay for the work.
To ensure the possibility of flights of the ships "the Union" to the moon it is necessary to make a unit For acceleration, which will send a spacecraft to the moon, a new thermal protection which will enable the ship When returning from the moon down into the earth's atmosphere at the second cosmic velocity (11.2 kilometres per second).
For the lunar version of the Soyuz will also need a fresh power supply system, communications and life support.
in addition, as reported in the available to the Last news, documents, RSC Energia, For flight of a Soyuz to the moon required the installation of star sensors, instruments, manual control, evaporative system, extra engines and oxygen tanks.
in 2017, the former head of RSC Energia Vladimir Solntsev told that the Corporation was approached by several people wishing to make a flyby of the moon, they are willing to pay for a ticket for 120 million dollars. This flight He called real in 2021 or 2022. The modernization of the "Union" under the lunar flyby required five hundred million dollars.
The possibility of manned flights to the moon on Soyuz spacecraft, as long as completed the Development of a new ship Federation-the head of "Roskosmos" Dmitry Rogozin announced on 28 June 2018. The development of a new spacecraft For missions to the moon is from 2009.
The seventeenth of January, Rogozin said that RSC Energia can make a new spaceship "Federation" and in parallel to upgrade For missions to the moon spacecraft " Soyuz ". He added that Roskosmos is hoping for a fresh negotiating position with the NASA lunar station in connection with the beginning of modernization of the Soyuz spacecraft For missions to the moon.