The President of Russia Vladimir Putin has officially put an end to the work of the Federal space Agency Roscosmos. The decree completed a long-lasting organizational hopelessness associated with another decade of budget cuts, the abandonment of the creation of many advanced space ships and inappropriate use of over 92 billion rubles.
But you should not worry about space the future of the country — Russian Federal space Agency, like the Phoenix, will be reborn on 1 January in the form of public corporations. What does this all mean actually?
The answer to this question nobody knows. We hope that the new Roscosmos will operate under more stringent control by the government, which will help reduce corruption. The new organizational structure of the Agency (Corporation) may mean that it will focus on competition in commercial space flights. In the end, the development of ambitious American competitors, such as SpaceX, could put an end to the rocket amazingly profitable business. In the middle of 2015, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said that 6 tickets for “the Union” in 2017 will cost the U.S. budget of 490 million dollars — that is, 82 million for each place, compared with 70 million in the previous year. Sending astronauts to low-earth orbit is big business, so do not expect that the main goals of the updated Roscosmos change much.