[FPSPACE] Russia resources for ISS

[Benigno Muniz Jr.]

At 08:04 AM 9/1/2000 -0400, Scott Benson wrote:
>"Russia's ISS budget for the current year was 40 million dollars but the 
>space agency had
>succeeded in raising 3.5 billion dollars from commerical ventures, mostly 
>in collaboration
>with US firms, Koptev said."
>
>What is Koptev talking about???   Rubles? 3.5B$ is significantly more than 
>the US will spend on ISS next year. They should be able to build all the 
>remaining Russian modules, and launch 3 or 4 years worth of Soyuz and 
>Progress missions for that.

My guess is that he was mixing apples & oranges, and talking about 
commercial launch contracts not associated w/ ISS (e.g. the upcoming Sirius 
2 launch).

Ben Muniz  bmuniz@rain.org

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