Roscosmos issued a tender for development of a replacement for Phobos-Grunt

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Roscosmos issued a tender for development of a replacement for Phobos-Grunt

Roscosmos issued a tender for preparation of a technical proposal for development of a spacecraft designed to deliver soil samples from Phobos (satellite of Mars) to Earth. The corresponding documents were posted at the website dedicated to state procurement, TASS reports.

“The aim is to prepare a technical proposal for development of Bumerang spacecraft designed for exploring satellites of Mars – Phobos and Deimos, as well as delivering soil samples from Phobos to Earth,” said in the documents.

According to the draft Federal Space Program, Roscosmos is going to repeat a mission aimed at getting the soil samples from Phobos (natural satellite of Mars) in 2024. According to the document, the spacecraft will be launched in 2024 in the network of Ekspeditsiya-M (Mars-Grunt) project.

The mission assumes delivery of the soil samples from Phobos to Earth. 10,3 billion rubles will be allocated for this project during 2016-2025 period. This is twice as much as a sum specified in the draft program elaborated last year (5,1 billion rubles). In addition, the launch of the spacecraft in the previous version of the program was scheduled for 2025.