Russian experts: Russia will produce rockets like Elon Musk...

But it will take another thirty years, and Russia is already behind the whole planet.

On July 30, the Russian newspaper published an expert article.

Dmitry Bakanov, head of the Russian Space Agency, said in an interview that one of the main tasks of the Russian space agency at present is to create a first stage rocket that can return to Earth, which will greatly reduce the cost of space launches.

Elon Musk has proven that the first stage of the rocket can now be used multiple times, resulting in significant price reductions and great savings.

Incidentally, similar technologies are also applied in China and Japan today.

However, in Russia, the task document for developing a reusable rocket stage called "Kuznichok" was signed only in June this year.

Evidently, in this plan, Russia is at least behind the entire planet.

Why did we start making such rockets so late? Why wasn't there such a task before?

In China, these R&D efforts have reached the final stage, with rockets such as "Firefly" and "Zhuru."

What about us? Former head of the space agency Rogozin said that developing such rockets was risky, and as a result, we wasted several years in this field.

The new leadership is also not interested in this issue.

Will we see rockets with recoverable first stages within the next ten years, or will we still need many more years to see these structures?

We must disappoint you — we may not see such rockets.

The problem is that Russia currently has no need to build such rockets.

Russia has a large number of "old" rockets, but there is no special need to launch them.

We can launch more rockets from the old inventory at any time, because they do exist. In this case, creating a new model is economically unprofitable.

It seems a bit strange to make reusable rockets when we conduct 14 launches per year.

There is currently not enough payload to increase the number of launches.

But we don't have a strategic plan for the next five to ten years; we have the Federal Space Program. This program is currently being developed, with no breakthroughs and no impressive grand plans.

If we now manufacture rockets without return stages, then new rockets might take thirty years to be made.

Original: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1839022596207628/

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