According to the CEO of CENKI, work is underway on new contracts
MOSCOW, October 21. /tass/. Contracts for two launches of the Soyuz-ST launch vehicle have been concluded for 2023. This was announced in an interview with TASS by Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov, Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI, part of Roscosmos).
"Contracts for two more launches have been signed for 2023," Mukhamedzhanov said, answering the relevant question.
According to the General Director of CENKI, work is underway on new contracts for the removal of the payload of Soyuz rockets from the Kourou cosmodrome.
October 21 marks the 10th anniversary of the first launch of the Soyuz-ST launch vehicle from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. In 2011, a Russian rocket with a Fregat upper stage launched two European Galileo navigation satellites into orbit. Since then, up to four launches of Russian rockets have been carried out annually from the Kourou cosmodrome.
