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A decade of cooperation between the U.S. and Russia to send astronauts into space could be ending.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Romain Colas for AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia has lost its long-held monopoly as the only country able to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station following the flawless manned launch by U.S. company SpaceX. The Russian space agency congratulated the United States and Elon Musk’s SpaceX on the first crewed flight ever by a private company, but experts said the launch should be a wakeup call for Roscosmos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe success of the mission will provide us with additional opportunities that will benefit the whole international programme,\u201d cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, Roscosmos executive director for crewed space programmes, said in a brief video address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday\u2019s launch was the first of American astronauts from U.S. soil since the mothballing of the U.S. shuttle programme in 2011 that left Russia\u2019s more basic and reliable Soyuz spacecraft solely responsible for transporting crews. Astronauts since then have all trained at Star City outside Moscow and studied Russian before blasting off from Baikonur launchpad in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese flights have been an unexpected chance for Moscow to keep producing Soyuz and retain a significant voice in negotiations over the ISS,\u201d said Isabelle Sourbes-Verger, a specialist in space policy at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian space agency has also earned large sums by ferrying astronauts: a seat in the Soyuz costs NASA around $80 million. If SpaceX starts taking up all US astronauts, “the annual losses could be more than $200 million, a significant loss for Roscosmos’s budget of around $2 billion,” said Andrei Ionin, an expert at the Tsiolkovsky Space Academy in Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While Musk, the ambitious entrepreneur behind SpaceX, has named the price of a seat on his spacecraft as $60 million, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin has announced Russia is working to cut its price by 30%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ionin voiced scepticism over the plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSpaceX is saving money by using cheap engines and manufacturing almost all its own parts,\u201d he said. \u201cTo do this, Russia would have to change its production process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another option is a barter system proposed by NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine: for every Russian riding in a US spaceship, one American would take a Soyuz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wakeup call<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a broader sense, the appearance of a rival such as SpaceX should be a \u201cwakeup call\u201d for the Russian space industry, which is \u201cin far worse shape than those in charge admit,\u201d said Ionin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A decade ago Russia was behind a large proportion of the world\u2019s launches, but that is no longer the case today due to competition from China and SpaceX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we were losing the launches market, Roscosmos said everything was fine because we were the only ones sending people up to the ISS. Now that fig leaf has fallen off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia’s space sector is marred by corruption, with multiple scandals over the construction of the new Vostochny launchpad in the Far East. The country\u2019s space industry has also failed to innovate, concentrating on modifying \u201cSoviet technology without any major evolution,\u201d Ionin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian space programme is renowned for having sent the first man into space in 1961 and launching the first satellite four years earlier, and its achievements remain a major source of national pride. But more recently it has endured a series of setbacks, notably losing expensive spacecraft and satellites in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rise of private companies like SpaceX, which has ambitions to conquer Mars, risks leaving Russia irrecoverably far behind, experts said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mars next?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Russia to keep up, a government body independent of the space sector’s main players needs to develop a new strategy, Ionin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cU.S. President [Donald] Trump reestablished a body \u2014 the National Space Council \u2014 to set policy goals. We need to do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some observers sense a lack of political will from President Vladimir Putin who appears to be more focused on using rocket science to develop military capabilities, particularly hypersonic missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor Putin, space exploration isn’t a priority when it comes to showing off the might of the state,\u201d said independent space expert Vitaly Yegorov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Ionin, reinvigorating the Russian space programme requires international cooperation, too. Sourbes-Verger suggested any manned international mission to Mars \u201ccould be an opportunity for Russia to regain its standing by sharing its skills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, she said, the costs of any such mission would be so high that China \u2014 now the world\u2019s second space power in terms of launches \u2014 would need to be included. Yet that prospect seems unlikely, she added, given that \u201cthe U.S. Congress refuses any space cooperation with China.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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