To bypass the Americans - such a difficult task put before Russian scientists working for astronautics, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. The launches of domestic missiles, he said, should become cheaper, and then we will defend this market and will earn good money for the country, "he said in an interview with the Rossiyskaya 24 television channel, an uneasy task for Russian scientists working in space exploration, vice -Prime Dmitry Rogozin. The launches of domestic missiles, he said, should become cheaper, and then we will defend this market and will earn good money for the country, "he said in an interview with Rossiya 24 television station after visiting the Vostochny space center.. Dmitry Rogozin. Photo: GLOBAL LOOK press / Kremlin Pool In general, Rogozin divided the tasks of the Russian cosmonautics space flight in three directions: defense, actually, scientific and economic or commercial. The last is to first, create for ourselves the space groupings, which will allow us to provide a vast country with a single connection, communications, navigation, maps and so on.. , And secondly, - to earn on starts. The Vice Prime Minister is sure that if the start-up designs of Vostochny will work properly, orders will come, and one should not abandon a market that is capable of generating huge sums of money, and for which precisely this reason is a fierce struggle.

But to make commercial launches of Russian missiles competitive, our scientists will have to seriously work on reducing their cost. Americans in the framework of public and private programs are already creating media that enable them to save on start-ups and to the full with their media technology with the first steps returned. Russia should give them an answer. This answer, according to Rogozin, will be asymmetric - to follow the way of Americans too costly. Russian developers, according to the vice-premier should do everything to win from the United States at the cost of commercial launches, so that prices do not bite, were lower than that of Americans, as if they did not trick. This means - to reduce costs as much as possible and by improving the technology account "to reduce the cost of production and start-up part".

Igor Arbuzov, general director of NPO Energomash, believes that the new Russian Soyuz-5 medium-range missile is quite capable of competing with the US Falcon 9-based company SpaceX. This company is very aggressive in its desire to subjugate a significant part of the market for commercial launches.

At the same time, Russia does not intend to turn off cooperation with the United States in space, although the United States is playing a dishonest game - by supplying microelectronics for our space instrumentation under the sanctions, they continue to send their astronauts to the ISS on our "Soyuz". So "we should be as pragmatic as possible in relations with Americans. If they want something, in return we must receive something else, we must condition their wants with their requests, "the Deputy Prime Minister said, noting that in general large-scale research in outer space should be carried out jointly by the international community, since They "are very expensive".