Schedule Signed for Russian-Kazakh Space Project

Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS

Moscow, 2 December: It is planned to develop the Bayterek space rocket complex for Angara space launch vehicles at the Baykonur cosmodrome by the end of 2008. As an ITAR-TASS correspondent was told at the southern cosmodrome today, “the head of the Khrunichev state scientific-production space centre, Aleksandr Medvedev, has signed a general plan and schedule for creating the Bayterek space rocket complex at Baykonur”.

Under the plan and schedule, it is proposed to complete work to build the space rocket complex by 28 December 2008. The infrastructure for Bayterek will be developed on the basis of one of the launch complexes for heavy launch vehicles.

“Experts from Roskosmos [Russian Federal Space Agency] are to embark on work at the launch pad after the financing question is resolved – something that will be done between the Federal Space Agency and the Kazakh space agency,” he clarified. [Passage omitted]