[FPSPACE] Euro-Russian capsule: The silence is....like a vacuum

[agzak at optonline.net]

Add to that recent statements from Roskosmos' chief Perminov and RKK Energia's Designer General Lapota, that Russia will be developing the next-generation spacecraft independently.

Anatoly Zak
My ACTS page:
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/acts.html 



----- Original Message -----
From: Javier Casado <fjcasadop at yahoo.es>
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:34 am
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Euro-Russian capsule: The silence is....like a vacuum
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org

> As far as I know, the project is in serious trouble. Last week, 
> ESA decided
> to drastically cut its budget proposal for the next years, and this 
> is one
> of the projects that suffer most: zero budget.
> This will have to be approved next month in the members ministerial 
> meeting,but I suspect that ESA has been directed to drastically 
> reduce the budget in
> preparation for that meeting. This is not the only program 
> affected, of
> course; several will be cancelled (or frozen), and several others cut.
> 
> It is one of the consequences of the global crisis we are 
> suffering. I
> wonder what will be the consequences for other space agencies, I 
> suspectEurope will not be the only one affected.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Javier Casado
> Madrid, Spain
> 
> -- Original Message--
> 
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:05:06 +0000
> > From: Morris Jones <morrisjones at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: [FPSPACE] Euro-Russian capsule: The silence is....like a
> >        vacuum
> > To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
> >
> >
> > There seems to be little current discussion about the proposed
> > European-Russsian capsule plan, apart from Anatoly's regular 
> updates on
> > Russian Space Web. This is really surprising. ESA has no updates 
> on its own
> > Web site. The silence is disturbing. Does anyone know if the 
> project is in
> > trouble?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>