REC Engineering of the Future: "Let's go into space!"

29/03/2021

A delegation consisting of Olga Mikheeva, Adviser to the Governor of the Samara Region, General Director of the Russian Space Agency, and Denis Gusev, Project Director of the world-class Research and Development Center "Engineering of the Future", State Secretary of the Russian Space Agency, and Alexey Komyagin, Head of the grant office, met with Alexander Bloshenko, Executive Director for Advanced Programs and Science of Roscosmos, and Sergey Prokhorov, Director of the Department for Advanced Programs and the Sphere Project of Roscosmos, and his Deputy Oksana Wolf.

We discussed the creation of a Commercial Space Center. The main idea is that the REC "Engineering of the Future" should become something like a "single window" for working with private creators of space technology.

How will this work? Example: a private individual has ideas and opportunities for creating a spacecraft. But there is a need for testing equipment, attracting specialists, you need to arrange documentation, etc. If the project is worthy and breakthrough , we and the entire Engineering of the Future team will take up the task. We find a test site and people who are ready to invest financially, help deal with documents, coordinate university employees, and interact with Roscosmos. As a result, we have a unique competence, and a private company saves time, effort, and money.

This idea arose because Russia already has a fairly large stratum of business intellectuals. They are ready to invest in space, but constantly face various obstacles - administrative and technical. Roscosmos, the Commercial Space Center, and the Future Engineering Research Center want to make their work easier.

Another idea of Alexander Bloshenko is to attract young people to the work of the Center for Experiments in Space in a rather unusual way.

A new task of the SEC "Engineering of the Future" is to hold a competition among students and schoolchildren. Students will be able to offer their own project of an experiment on the International Space Station. Similar contests are held by NASA: children write stories about space adventures, suggest strategies for colonizing planets, and come up with names for rovers. We are sure that our guys are able to surprise the whole world with their creativity!

Roscosmos is also very interested in the development of participants of the youth REC "Engineering of the Future". We already wrote about the RocketLAV SKB, the guys made a great video about their Capella-ML rocket: https://t.me/c/1429243041/85. Its launch is expected to take place in April, and we will organize an online broadcast. How students conquer the heavens — you will be able to watch on our channels live!