the head of the company SpaceX Elon Musk on Twitter responded to charges of dumping of the General Director of “Rosatom” Dmitry Rogozin.
“SpaceX’s Rockets reusable to 80 percent, and their — 0. This is an urgent problem,” — said the businessman.
the Response to the Mask appeared under the post journalist Erika Berger, who drew attention to the fact that “neither the Russian nor the Europeans didn’t complain” when the United Launch Alliance (ULA), SpaceX’s main competitor in the U.S. market, received much higher subsidies from the state.
“But now, when the SpaceX commercial rocket, much cheaper than the competition, it suddenly became absolutely unfair,” the author writes.
Berger reminds us that “the Russian government is literally funding the entire cost of developing missiles.”
In April, Rogozin said that “if the market price of the trigger, for example, SpaceX about $ 60 million, that NASA pays for the same service from a half to four times more.”
In the same month, RIA Novosti, citing a source in space rocket industry, announced that three located at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the rocket “proton-M” due of detection of defective parts sent for replacement components back in Moscow, the Khrunichev Centre.
the Creation of a space rocket Russia governed by “Roscosmos”. For example, part of a Corporation, the Khrunichev Centre on the development of disposable rockets of family “Angara” for more than a quarter of a century spent more than three billion dollars, although at the same time carriers of this family (in the light and heavy variants) flew only twice.
currently, the Khrunichev Center is the most unprofitable enterprise of the Corporation, the debts of which exceed 80 billion rubles, and Rogozin urges Russian space industry to find a use for the “Angara”, which has repeatedly called pointless.
Soon the US will cease to depend on Russia in space.
