MOSCOW, November 27 – RIA Novosti. , Russia and Kazakhstan in the next two months, determine the type of carrier rocket for the created space complex “Baiterek”, said on Friday Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
“We have decided to form a Joint Study Group, it will work in the next two months and will give us offer the most optimal for the use of rockets that we have today. It is, in fact,” Proton “,” Soyuz “and tested “Angara”, “- he said at a meeting of the Russian-Kazakh intergovernmental commission on the complex” Baikonur “.
The space rocket complex “Baiterek” – launched in 2004 a joint project of Kazakhstan and Russia to create the structure at Baikonur for launches eco-friendly carrier rockets. It is assumed that, if implemented, it will be possible to abandon the carrier rocket “Proton” using toxic fuel components.
It was supposed to use the new rocket “Angara”. But later, because of the increased cost, delay the project for several years, and the decision on missile carrier “Angara” from the cosmodrome “East”, the project was reoriented to the use of missiles, “Zenit” Ukrainian origin.
Due the unstable political situation in Ukraine in the summer of 2014 the project was put on hold again. Currently, there are searches of implementation options based on Russian rockets, and the most suitable option was again “Angara”.
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