OREANDA-NEWS. July 06, 2010. New Russian space project Interheliozond may begin after 2015, RAS Space Research Institute Director Lev Zeleny told Interfax.

The project is intended to study the Sun from close distance. 5-6 spacecraft perform solar studies in LEO, but there is no spacecraft in the solar orbit. According to Zeleny, Interheliozond will provide new data about the Sun.

Scientists currently carry out preliminary design and trajectory studies of the future spacecraft. The project has been included into the Federal Space Program.