Russia ready to start using the launcher “Zenith” the first Ukrainian geostationary telecommunications satellite “The Swan.” In an interview with “Izvestia” said the head of the Center for operation of ground-based space infrastructure (TsENKI) Early Juraev.
«After starting December 11 is scheduled to launch two more rockets” Zenit “- a space observatory” Spektr-RG ” and Ukrainian satellite “Swan”. What will happen is hard to say, “- said Juraev a reporter’s question about the prospects of the use of rockets” Zenit “after the launch of the Russian unit” Elekro-L ».
According to her, the Ukrainian side did not apply to TsENKI to buy his Russian main engine for the “Zenith”. Juraev added that at present the launch facility for the missiles nobody Rentals (previously it was controlled by “International Space Services»).
08:50 June 4, 2015
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Russia’s losses from the termination of cooperation with Ukraine in the space industry
The head TsENKI noted that from Baikonur is no longer planned to launch the rocket “Dnepr” (launches carried out by Russian-Ukrainian-Kazakh company “Kosmotras”). On the possibilities of the medium starts with a clear area in the Orenburg region Juraev is nothing. Russia is not planning to abandon the launches of these carriers, but put in front of the Ukrainian side the question of reducing the cost of the project cost.
The satellite “Swan” made the Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates under an agreement with the Ukrainian side signed in 2009 . Terms run from 2011 was repeatedly postponed due to lack of funding and an increase in power device design.
Currently, the satellite is in the city of Zheleznogorsk in the territory of the enterprise “Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev”. Russia expects that Ukraine will pay for its transportation to Baikonur and the cost of Russian components in the production of rocket “Zenit».
The rockets “Dnepr” created on the basis of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile RS-20 (NATO classification – SS- 18 Satan). RS-20 missiles are among the most powerful of all intercontinental ballistic missiles in the world. Their production was engaged in “Pivdenmash” and management system developed “Hartron».
According to the signed in Moscow in late July 1991 Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions, the USSR (and later its successor – Russia) had to destroy half of such missiles or find their peaceful use.
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