OREANDA-NEWS. Russian State Corporation for Space Activities Roscosmos will reduce prices for launch services by more than 30 %. This was reported by the head of the company Dmitry Rogozin at a meeting chaired by President Vladimir Putin.

According to Roscosmos chief, the Russian side intends to expand its presence in international markets, to reduce non-production costs and increase the operational efficiency of the enterprise. “The pricing procedure which we proposed is, in fact, our response to dumping from American companies funded from the US budget,” he said. Rogozin cited as an example the market price for launching offered by American company SpaceX, which is about 60 million dollars. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA) pays for the same services “from one and a half to four times more,” Rogozin noted.