On Monday, Igor Komarov, the director of Roscosmos — Russia's version of NASA — announced that the space agency will receive a total of $22.5 billion dollars in government funding over the next 10 years.That might sound like a lot, but it's close to how much NASA gets from the federal government each year. In 2015, alone, NASA received approximately $18 billion, and is projected to get a similar amount each year through 2019.
In a disturbing article, the Russian Space Agency received yet another budget cut to $22.5B over the next ten years. QuoteOn Monday, Igor Komarov, the director of Roscosmos — Russia's version of NASA — announced that the space agency will receive a total of $22.5 billion dollars in government funding over the next 10 years.That might sound like a lot, but it's close to how much NASA gets from the federal government each year. In 2015, alone, NASA received approximately $18 billion, and is projected to get a similar amount each year through 2019.https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-government-already-paying-space-195035280.htmlWhat are the implications for their program and for joint operations such as ISS? Is this funding profile take them out of their key role in World spaceflight?Mods: Not sure if this is a policy topic... move as needed.
Lastly what other space agency except NASA gets more than 2.25 billion per year?
Quote from: gbaikie on 12/07/2015 02:56 amLastly what other space agency except NASA gets more than 2.25 billion per year?ESA's budget this year is about $4.8B (€4.4B).
Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 12/07/2015 04:43 amESA's budget this year is about $4.8B (€4.4B).This appear cumulative total of all European space agencies budgets, plus commercial satellites, GPS, or basically all European dollars spent on all it's governmental space related activity.So any space military related activity, I would I am guessing, is also included.
ESA's budget this year is about $4.8B (€4.4B).
Quote from: gbaikie on 12/07/2015 08:25 amQuote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 12/07/2015 04:43 amESA's budget this year is about $4.8B (€4.4B).This appear cumulative total of all European space agencies budgets, plus commercial satellites, GPS, or basically all European dollars spent on all it's governmental space related activity.So any space military related activity, I would I am guessing, is also included.And that guess is completely wrong.The ESA budget does NOT include the funds spent by it's member states on military space applications. ESA is strictly civilian, much like NASA.Also, the ESA budget does NOT include the funds spent by it's member states on strictly national space applications.For example: Germany is one of the biggest contributors of ESA. However, Germany also spends quite a bit of money on space applications outside the framework of ESA, on national programs. The same applies to France.Therefore, the ESA budget is the cumulation of those funds provided by ESA member states for ESA activities.But Europe actually spends quite a bit more than just the ESA budget on space activities.
Russia's economic crisis is cutting into the heart of the country's national pride: its space program.The Russian Federal Space Agency's budget will be slashed by 35% to 2 trillion rubles ($37 billion) over the next decade, the agency announced.
The cuts forced Roscosmos to abandon several high profile projects, including developing extra-heavy rockets that can reach beyond the Earth's orbit,...
Question for those with more knowledge than I on this matter.Could the US even operate the Russian segments to keep the ISS going if there was a willingness on the Russian side to sell their assets to the US? I'm thinking the Russian side mission control and communications aspects of maintaining ISS more than the orbiting hardware.
I'm getting reports from some of my contacts. It looks like the additional Russian ISS modules, such as MLM (Nauka), node module and NEM have the axe hovering over them. They have been earmarked for possible cancellation depending on how things get re-prioritized under the new budget regime.
So it sounds to me like this basically means the end of Russia's lunar and planetary exploration short of ExoMars, with most of the budget going into Earth-centric operations like the ISS. No Venera revival, no Luna revival, no Phobos-Grunt reflight...And with the suggestion the additional ISS modules might be cut, there goes OPSEK too.
The other shoe will be early withdrawal from ISS -- previously threatened.