“Financing for the Federal Space Program-2025 is planned in the amount of 2 trillion rubles ($40 billion),” Roscosmos’s press service said.
Yuri Koptev, the head of the Roscosmos scientific and technical board, said the above-mentioned sum is the minimal amount required for achieving Russia's objectives in space.
Late in March, Koptev said that Russian space project price estimates have risen on average by 27 percent due to the unfavorable economic situation.
Roscosmos scientists have managed to cut some expenses. On Tuesday, Roscosmos head Igor Komarov told President Vladimir Putin that the agency has decreased planned design expenditure estimates for a super-heavy rocket tenfold, from $11.5 billion to $1.15 billion.
The Russian Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 is expected to be submitted to the government by June 10, 2015. It will include a number of ambitious projects such as a full-scale moon exploration program.
