Kliper selection will be made Feb 18

• Kliper selection will be made Feb 18 by mr.columbus on 18 Jan, 2006 01:46
• According to this article http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060117/43045501.html , there will be a closed bidding process on Feb 18 for downselection of proposals to build Kliper . What is interesting is that the article mentions that Dordain had suggested that a lot of ESA's advanced spacecraft technologies money would go to the Kliper project - I guess ESA came up with this 'funding trick' only a couple of days ago given the statements following the ESA December space summit.
  
  At least it is interestint that ESA does not give up and wants to be involved - and 300 million euros over 3 years, given the 1bn USD estimate of the Kliper project until first flight, this would make ESA a real partner on the project.
• #1 by astropl on 19 Jan, 2006 05:56
• Feb 18? In official press release of FKA it's Feb, 3rd. See: http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=1322
• #2 by Sergi Manstov on 19 Jan, 2006 07:51
• Yes, there is confusion on the date. I'm trying to find out, if it wasn't sooooooooo cold!!!!  
• #3 by astropl on 19 Jan, 2006 08:01
• VERY cold - polish language weather site (http://pogoda.onet.pl/0,148,miasto.html) give to Moscow minus 20 to minus 30 deg. C!! But here in Poland next days will be cold, too: http://pogoda.onet.pl/0,552,miasto.html . Keep warm!
• #4 by ras391 on 07 Feb, 2006 00:04
• OK, I'm confused....  What date will we learn which Russian company will produce Kliper?  Obviously, by no answer yet, it was not the 3rd.  Thanks.