Moscow, August 25: Russia has launched 20 carrier rockets since the beginning of the year, which beats last year’s average monthly rate, an analysis of which will be discussed at a meeting today to be chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The meeting will discuss restructuring of the rocket and space industry and focus on creation of an effective mechanism for improving the state of the industry, the government press service has said.
By 2016, an integrated research centre will be created in the industry and a corporation will be established to build automatic spacecraft and ground-based control systems.
“After 2016, the structure of the rocket and space industry will comprise up to six big corporations, self-sufficient in the production of certain space equipment and competitive on the world space market,” it said.
–Agencies