Kazakhstan and Russia were concerned for the future of the “Gagarinsky start” on the Baikonur cosmodrome, since the UAE delay their participation in the implementation of the program for its modernization, Interfax-Avn reports, referring to the statement of the Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry Bagdat Musina.
“Kazakhstan and Russia held all the domestic procedures, now all documents are in the Emirates – in the third party, they move, but, to be honest, slowly. We agreed that again we express our concern to the Emirates side and, if before March of the month The skills will not be, in parallel we will start looking for other project implementation options, “the official said.
According to him, in the real time from the UAE, “there was a shift and a new leadership delivers to the project, they [revise] conditions, recalculate the return of money due to the fact that the space industry becomes dynamically developing, and they say that Once again you need to look at the prices in the global market and so on. ” “But we cannot wait for a long time, we need to decide faster,” Musin noted.
In December, Dmitry Rogozin, General Director of Roskosmos, during a speech at the Space Integration Forum, reminded the six-time reduction in the number of start-up complexes at the Baikonur cosmodrome located in Kazakhstan and renting Russia. According to him, the cosmodrome developed a turning point. “We were when they entered the lease agreement 25 years ago, there were 18 starting complexes, there are now three,” the general director said. According to him, the two starting complex remained for the launches of heavy missiles “Proton-M”. One – for the starts of medium carriers “Soyuz-2”.