Dmitry Loskutov, General Director of Glavkosmos JSC, also said that the launch of European Galileo satellites from the Kourou cosmodrome is likely to be postponed
MOSCOW, February 26. /tass/. It will take several days to preserve the Russian equipment at the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. This was announced on Saturday on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station by Dmitry Loskutov, General Director of Glavkosmos JSC.
"It will take literally a few days to preserve the equipment and take out specialists," he said.
According to him, the French side will not be able to use the missiles and equipment left at the cosmodrome without the help of Russia.
Loskutov also said that the launch of the European Galileo satellites from the Kourou cosmodrome will probably be postponed. "Apparently, it [the launch of two Galileo spacecraft] will be postponed. This is a really important program for the European Union, the same as GLONASS for us," Loskutov said.
As Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said earlier, in response to EU sanctions, the Russian state corporation is suspending cooperation with European partners in organizing launches from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana.
The EU imposed strict financial and technological sectoral restrictions against 64 key structures of the Russian Federation, including the Progress Rocket and Space Center, and severely restricted access to the capital market and financial services for these structures, prohibited the provision of technical assistance to them and trade with them in military or dual-use products and technologies, as well as technologies and equipment for oil production in polar latitudes and offshore. The EU has also adopted an extensive list of high-tech products, in particular, communication systems, electronics, semiconductors, aviation and space components, prohibited for supply to Russia.
The Guiana Space Center is a European spaceport near the city of Kourou in French Guiana (department of France in South America). The Russian-European Soyuz project at the Guiana Space Center began in 2003 after a decision at the government level to launch Soyuz launch vehicles from the European cosmodrome in French Guiana. As part of the decisions taken, a number of intergovernmental agreements were signed, which laid the legal basis for signing contracts for the creation of the ground infrastructure of the Soyuz launch complex, the manufacture and shipment of Soyuz-ST launch vehicles and Fregat upper stages to the Guiana Space Center. The first launch of the Soyuz-ST launch vehicle took place in October 2011.
