RUSSIA’S SUPER-HEAVY ROCKET PROJECT ESTIMATED AT $23 BILLION
The project for creating Russia’s super-heavy space rocket and launch pad for it will cost approximately 1.5 trillion rubles (roughly $23 billion at the current official rate of exchange).
The project for making a super-heavy space rocket was originally approved in the autumn of 2014.
In the spring of 2015 Roscosmos announced that work on a new space rocket would have to be postponed. The project was unlisted in the federal space program for 2016-2025 adopted in spring. At the same time, there are plans to create the rocket Fenix before 2025. Fenix is expected to be the first stage of the promising super-heavy carrier rocket.
Russia will also focus on developing Angara-A5V, a new modification of the heavy Angara carrier rocket with a carrying capacity of slightly less than 40 tons. This rocket is intended for Russia’s lunar program.
Russia is offering other countries to jointly develop a super-heavy carrier rocket, Roscosmos Deputy Head Sergey Savelyev said.
