Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said that "all the necessary documents have been agreed"
MOSCOW, December 3. /tass/. Work on the modernization of the Zenit launch complex for Soyuz-5 (the Baiterek project) will start in March next year, all documentation for this has already been agreed. This was announced by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin on Friday at the EAEU business forum "Space Integration".
"Physical work there (at the Baiterek complex) will begin in March next year. We have agreed on all the necessary documents," Rogozin said.
In 2018, a protocol was signed on amendments to the agreement of the governments of Kazakhstan and Russia on the creation of the Baiterek complex on Baikonur dated December 22, 2004. The Protocol defines the obligations of the parties under the project, the withdrawal from lease and the transfer to the Kazakh side of the objects of the ground-based space infrastructure of the Zenit-M complex for modernization.
Kazakhstan is responsible for the creation of ground infrastructure through the modernization of the Zenit-M space rocket complex. Russia is developing Soyuz-5 and Soyuz-6 launch vehicles, which it plans to launch from there. The first launch is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023. The launch complex will be named "Nazarbayev Start".
