"All this (a series of accidents. - RT ) led to the fact that we are from the first place on the launch services, which was still in 2014, rolled back to the third," RIA Novosti quoted Borisov.
He added that in 2019, Russia plans to conduct about 45 rocket launches.
“In the coming year we will have about 45 launches. This, as you understand, is almost twice as many as in 2018. The plans are ambitious, but I think that with proper organization of the work, this can be done, ”said Borisov.
Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the planned amount of budget financing for the development of the space industry in 2019-2021 will be more than 515 billion rubles.