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Now it seems the glory days of Roscosmos - leveraging from Soviet era infrastructure and technology - are coming to an end thanks to SpaceX but also other actors bringing in the improved technology.

The AHC is, how could Roscosmos build a succesful follow-ups to Soviet era technologies? The objective is not to create a Space X -style company per se, but a level of launch technology which is clearly ahead of rivals. There's certainly no lack of innovative engineers and scientists in Russian space sector. There were facilities for mass production to leverage from scale of production.

Now, Could Roscosmos do it with improved spending or would this just mean more extravagant dachas for Putin's inner circle? If it could, what would be the actual planned projects which would be produced or completely imaginary projects which could reach these goals?
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