October 02 2018, 10:02

A very interesting analysis –

(in the image — the amount of payload launched by customer country)

Some bold statements:

“The CEO of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, accused the head of the American company SpaceX, Elon Musk, of dumping in the space launch market with the aim of ousting Russia. (…) According to Rogozin, Musk receives about 150 million dollars from the Pentagon for each launch. ‘He is paid extra to enter the market with a cheap product,’ noted the head of Roscosmos. He admitted that under such conditions, Russia is unable to compete. Roscosmos cannot demand from the Ministry of Defense a launch price that would be 3 – 5 times more expensive, Rogozin highlighted, adding that such a game would be unfair. Nonetheless, the head of Roscosmos promised that in the near future, Russia will once again lead in the market of launching payloads into space using carrier rockets. According to him, next year Russia will conduct the second launch of the heavy rocket ‘Angara’, and from 2021 will start its mass production. ‘We will return and be the first again, I promise you,’ Rogozin declared.”

Sad to say.

Dmitry Akhmerov