Roskosmos decides to abandon development of Rus-M booster
20:13, 7 October 2011
MOSCOW. October 7. KAZINFORM The Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) decided to abandon the development of a promising booster Rus-M, Roskosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin said at a question-and-answer governmental session in the State Duma on Friday.
"We do not need a new rocket, we will use those that we have," he said.
According to Itar-Tass, Popovkin elaborated that more than 37% of Roskosmos budget was allocated to develop a launch vehicle by 2015, however, these funds are very small, "so, the launch of a new booster in 2015 is not in question."
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