Kosmokurs

CosmoCourse is engaged in the creation of a reusable suborbital space complex for tourist flights into space within the framework of the Skolkovo Foundation. ISCC consists of a reusable suborbital launch vehicle (MSRN) and a reusable suborbital spacecraft (ISCA), designed to provide a service: a space tour to the height of Gagarin's orbit along an open trajectory. The applicant will receive permission to participate in a space tour after conducting three days of training and a medical examination. The space tourist will be offered a flight of 15 minutes as part of a group of six excursionists, in which each tourist will be able to be in a state of zero gravity for 5-6 minutes, freely moving inside the cabin with a total volume of 30 cubic meters and having the opportunity to look at the Earth from space to a personal porthole. Ticket price: $200-250 thousand. Flight altitude: 180-220 km. First flight: 2025

2021: Company Liquidation Announcement

Cosmokurs, which planned to develop space tourism, announced the liquidation. This became known in early April 2021.

According to RIA Novosti, citing the general director of Cosmokurs Pavel Pushkin, the company is closing due to "insurmountable difficulties in coordinating the requirements for the cosmodrome project with local authorities," as well as the impossibility of receiving all the necessary documents from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the design of a suborbital rocket.

According to Pushkin, the company has already informed employees about the dismissal. About 50 design engineers of space and rocket technology worked at Cosmokurs.

Cosmokurs is being liquidated

In March 2021, the company suspended work on the creation of the cosmodrome due to bureaucratic obstacles. Roskosmos They said that they are already aware of the situation with the liquidation of Cosmokurs. They plan to keep the team there, including it in one of the scientific institutions. Alexander Medvedev, General Designer Russia for Excretion, Deputy General Director of the Roscosmos Head Scientific Institute, is directly involved TsNIIMash in the solution of the problem.

Cosmokurs was one of the few private space projects in Russia. For various reasons, companies such as the satellite-building company Dauria, the developer of the Lin Industrial light missiles, the Galaxy group of companies, did not determine the launch future of the Sea Launch complex.

The Cosmokurs company was confident that the construction of the cosmodrome would also help form ground tourism, since people could "pay not only for flying on a rocket, but also for the opportunity to touch space" as spectators. However, the project closed.

According to the SuperJob job search service, which was published in April 2021, in Russia about 31% of citizens dream of flying into space, and more often than others, programmers, analysts, engineers and procurement managers think about it.^[1]

2020

Admission to the competition for the creation of a missile

September 22, 2020 it became known that Roscosmos for the first time allowed a private company to tender for the creation of a rocket. We are talking about the CosmoCourse company, which claimed to create the Amur-LNG launch vehicle project. More details here.

Agreement with the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region on cooperation in the implementation of an investment project for the construction of a suborbital space complex

The Russian space startup CosmoCourse, after realizing that it was difficult to gain access to state cosmodromes (the company planned the first launch from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome in 2020, Plesetsk and Baikonur were also considered), decided to create a private launch pad. At the end of February 2019, the government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the regional Development Corporation and CosmoCourse signed an agreement on cooperation in the implementation of an investment project for the construction of a suborbital space complex. The project is implemented through private investment.

The president of the Skolkovo Foundation, Kosmokur, announced in June 2020 the situation of specialists in the field of balance sheet, dissidents in summer, the situation of advertising (and the situation with them). The project which is implemented by "Kosmokurs" - creation of a reusable subspace complex for tourist flights in space.

On the Cosmokurs page on social networks, an announcement appeared about the search for specialists in the field of ballistics, flight dynamics, design of launch vehicles, boosters or passenger (manned) spacecraft. "These vacancies do not exhaust the list," the announcement said. Recall that in the spring of 2019, the Cosmokurs company announced that it was going to build a private cosmodrome for tourists in the Nizhny Novgorod region. It was reported that in 2025, having bought a ticket for $200 thousand, a person will be able to climb to a height of 180-220 km and spend 5-6 minutes in zero gravity.

"We are actively moving towards firing tests of our full-size engine," representatives of Cosmokurs said in a statement. According to the resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, at the moment, tests of units and systems of a full-size engine are being actively tested and a month later it is expected to show a test of the engine ignition system on the main components and a number of small tests. In total, about 50 specialists are now working on the creation of a suborbital tourist complex, according to the announcement.

2019

The Cosmokurs company and the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region concluded an agreement in March 2019 on the construction of the first private cosmodrome in Russia. This was reported to TASS by the general director of Cosmokurs Pavel Pushkin. Construction is tentatively scheduled for 2020-2023, private investments will amount to 2.6 billion rubles.

Approval of the project at the federal level began, including with the state corporation Roscosmos, Pushkin said. The process may take a long time, since no one in Russia has yet built such facilities, the entrepreneur added. At the same time, Cosmokurs is counting on the support of Roscosmos in this matter, he concluded.

The company is a resident of Skolkovo and is implementing a project to organize suborbital tourist flights at an altitude of up to 200 km. As stated on its official website, such a flight will last about 15 minutes, including 5-6 minutes in zero gravity. The estimated cost of the ticket will be from 200 to 250 thousand dollars. The first flight with passengers is scheduled for 2025.

Earlier, Pavel Pushkin reported that for the implementation of the project it is necessary to build a separate cosmodrome. It is impossible to use Baikonur or Vostochny for this purpose, he told Izvestia in February.

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