General Designer of Automatic Space Systems and Complexes – Deputy General Director of TsNIIIMASH (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”) Viktor Hartov spoke at the plenary session of the jubilee, 45 “Korolev readings.”
During the report, he spoke about the history of the creation and development of cosmic observatories. Relaxing the current situation, he recalled the launch of the Russian spectrum-R telescope in 2011 and spoke about the work of the Russian orbital Observatory “Spectr-RG”, which was sent to space at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers from the ground in 2019.
Separately, Victor Hartov touched upon the issue of mastering the Moon, told about the complexity of flights to the Earth’s satellite. He recalled that the preparation of the Luna-25 apparatus is being completed, which should be launched in early October 2020, and also spoke about the follow-up missions of the automatic spacecraft “Luna-26”, “Luna-27” and “Luna 28 “. The latter should deliver an ice regabolite with ice from the moon.
In my opinion, the lunar program should be a technological development program that will allow you to enter new levels of technology. The moon is an excellent polygon for checking these solutions, “said Victor Hartov.
Touching the question of the study of Mars, he spoke about the progress of preparations for the Russian-European Mission EXOMARS-2022, during which the Russian landing module should deliver a rover to the Red Planet, manufactured by the European Space Agency. Startup window for sending mission: September – October 2022, Arrival for Mars is expected in June 2023.
Viktor Hartov touched upon the use of near-earth outer space, saying that the Russian orbital grouping currently has about 150 spacecraft for various purposes and will develop quantitatively and qualitatively. As an example, along with other new trends, he led multi-contact systems that are actively created all over the world. One of the main conditions for their creation, he called a massive release of inexpensive devices based on uniform platforms.