Russia to start financing mission to Venus in 2022

On the day of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Russian Space Agency, Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of the State Corporation Roscosmos, spoke about the achievements and problems of the modern rocket and space industry in Russia.

Russia to start financing mission to Venus in 2022

An interview with Dmitry Rogozin was released on Channel One. Among other things, Rogozin spoke about plans to finance scientific space programs. According to him, funding for the mission to Venus will begin as early as 2022. Rogozin explained:

This year we are starting to finance the mission to Venus — Venera-D. We allocated funds for new lunar vehicles – the orbital Luna-26 and the heavy landing Luna-27. We are expanding work on the new space observatory Spektr-UF. Last year, with the support of the President of the Russian Federation, we secured funding for the development of scientific space.”

The space complex of the new generation “Venera-D” is an automatic interplanetary station for the first mission since 1984 to study Venus. According to the plans of Roscosmos, the launch of the spacecraft should be carried out in 2029.

Source: ixbt

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