Enterprise "Roskosmos" has begun to develop methods of landing a spacecraft on an asteroid, such technologies can be established before the end of the next decade, said in an interview with RIA Novosti General Director of "Roskosmos" Dmitry Rogozin.
"There is a task to learn to put the unit on the asteroid, and not a simple spacecraft, and land the spaceship. The difficulty is how to cling to an asteroid. However, this task our engineers a clear and proactively with companies such work begins to take place. We know how to implement it," he said.
Rogozin explained that this technology it is possible to create up to 2030.
At the same time, he did not specify landing on some asteroid was going on.
Informed for landing astronauts on an asteroid planned at NASA, however, it abandoned these plans in favor of the resumption of flights to the moon.
In 2014 a soft landing on the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko did a European probe Philae. In 2018-2019 through the Japanese mission "Kabwasa-2" on an asteroid, the Ryuga sat modules Rover-1A, Rover-1B, MASCOT, and then the eponymous probe.
