Just two days after his boss reprimanded Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin for incompetence, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin laid into the whole Russian space industry. As RIA Novosti reports:
“Firstly, I see ineffective management. Secondly, excess capacity. And thirdly, a blurred understanding of the goals of Russia’s activities in space,” Rogozin told the commission, Russian media reported.
To begin to address some of the problems, Rogozin proposed potentially far-reaching changes to Russia’s space industry. Contractors, manufacturers and operators of space systems, all currently under the control of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), need to be made independent of one another, according to Rogozin, who also said there should be a “discussion” about the merger of the aviation and space industries.
The comments were made to the commission investigating the July 2 failure of a Proton-M launcher.
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