Media: uzhmashzavod will serve two launch rocket "Zenit" from the Baikonur cosmodrome
Dnipropetrovsk "uzhmashzavod" received permission for the service of 2 upcoming launches rocket "Zenit" from Baikonur, said General Director of the company Sergey Voight.
"We have received from the Ukrainian authorities all permits needed to send a team of technical experts to service the rocket "Zenit" from the Baikonur cosmodrome in July of the current year. It's a peaceful space, and in this area we are engaging with Russia will continue, " Voight told the newspaper.
in addition, Ukraine has agreed intention to launch its own satellite broadcasting "Lybid" with the help of Roscosmos from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
"As for satellite launch" Lybid ", we still plan to launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome. The rocket for this launch Us in fact completed, you only get out of Russia the engine and control system, " said Voight.
As reported in the press in the last decade of March in Ukraine held a meeting via satellite "Lybid", with the participation of producers and customers. At the meeting it was stated That the spacecraft is made and ready to run.
in Roscosmos, the newspaper did not officially clarify the relationship with the Ukrainian enterprises, noting That here on many points there is uncertainty. FSUE " Center for operation of space ground-based infrastructure (TsENKI) publication revealed That over the past period of time Ukrainian partners did not respond to requests for technical support launches of Zenit. Also from the "IPhone" was given a failure in the author's supervision, and maintenance of the combat missile system of the R-36M.
with own side Roscosmos in February announced That it would no longer be purchased in Ukraine, launch vehicle " Zenit ". Two have already made Zenit delivered to the Russian Federation to the Federal space Agency plans to launch weather satellite Elektro-L " (the launch was scheduled for July 21, 2015) and scientific Observatory Spectrum-RG (starting in 2016-2017). In TsENKI told the publication That in the last period of time in Roscosmos thought How to implement the launch of "Zenith" in case "uzhmashzavod" will refuse to send to Baikonur its experts - it was exactly that.
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