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Subj: Russian Space Agency Gets 100 Million Dollar Budget Boost
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 236.01 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. August 24, 2003
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Russia is to boost its space budget by some three billion rubles (100
million dollars) next year, the head of the Russian Space Agency said
Tuesday.
The additional funds, a supplement to Russia's 2004 budget, "mean we
will be able to actively develop the International Space Station
project," he said, as quoted by the Interfax-AVN news agency.
The extra money will also enable Russia to increase the number of its
satellite launches for communications and scientific purposes.
According to the Russian Space Forces, the space wing of Russia's armed
forces, around 100 Russian satellites are currently in orbit,
including 60 of military application.
Since the February 1 Columbia space shuttle disaster in which US
astronauts died, triggering the suspension by NASA, the US space
agency, of its shuttle flights, the burden of servicing the ISS has
fallen entirely on Russia.
The Russian finance ministry presented the government with its draft
2004 budget earlier this month.
The draft will be given three readings in parliament before being
passed into law before legislative elections scheduled for December.
[ANS thanks Space Daily for the above information.]
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