Roscosmos has prepared an updated version of the Federal space program of Russia for 2016-2025 and sent it for approval to the Ministry. Unfortunately, the new project will not please us: as it became known to journalists, from PCF have been deleted almost all work on manned flights to the natural satellite of the Earth.
The new version of the BFC was prepared after a significant reduction in funding for space industry, which was announced in November of this year. If you compare the new version with the previous one, you will notice the absence of the project “creation of the lunar landing complex” (ROC PTK-2), “lunar suit” (ROC LB-Lscat) “Establishment of a lunar base” (ROC LB 1st stage), “creating a system of robotic components on the moon” (ROC LB) “Establishment of a lunar orbital station” (ROC LOS 1 stage). As a result, the budget for manned flights, has decreased by over 20 percent compared to the April version of the document to 329,7 billion.
Due to the cancellation of the manned lunar program from the project of the Federal space program were also removed extra events associated with it. So, from the Chapter “launch vehicles spacecraft” lost project oxygen-hydrogen space tug MOB-cwtc. Earlier it was planned to use it for delivery of the spacecraft with astronauts to orbit Earth’s natural satellite.
According to the materials izvestia.ru