The company Kosmotras want to spend all planned launches of the Dnepr rocket

International space Company Kosmotras will perform all obligations under the launches of carrier rockets "Dnepr" foreign spacecraft within the first convicts contracts, said General Director Alexander Serkin.
"Now we are preparing to launch a spacecraft in South Korea KOMPSAT-3A. The start will take place in March, " said news Agency Serkin. According to him, this year is expected to spend two more start using rocket " Dnepr "." Our international partners not to worry, we will all taken on their own shoulders obligations, " said the Serkin. For its part, the official authorized Roscosmos Igor Burenkov confirmed that all first achieved consensus about the launch of the Dnepr will be done." currently, work is underway in preparation for the withdrawal of South Korean handset KOMPSAT-3A rocket "Dnepr" launch Clear, the launch of which is planned for March 2015. Prospects of the further operation of Dnipro will determine the needs of customers in this type of media, " said he to the Agency. Before the first day of the week Roscosmos told that Launches the conversion boosters "Dnipro" in the framework of the international space program, a team of stopped for a while for an indefinite period. At the end of December last year it was announced that starting the program in 2015 will begin on 22 January with the launch of foreign spacecraft "KOMPSAT-3A by means of the conversion of the Dnepr rocket from the launching area" Dombrowski ". The last launch of the carrier rocket "Dnepr" was held in November last year, then she launched into earth orbit by a few foreign spacecraft for various purposes. In June last year the missile, launched from the territory of the Orenburg region on the program " Dnipro ", into orbit a record number of satellites - 34 machine for customers from 17 countries. The conversion program " Dnipro ", developed in the 1990s at the initiative of the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, involves the application removed from combat duty ICBM SS-20 spacecraft launches. The runs are performed from the Baikonur cosmodrome and position area Jasnensky connection of the Russian strategic missile forces. The carrier rocket "Dnepr" - a three-stage, liquid. The first and the second steps are the standard steps of ICBM SS-20. Launch mass of Dnipro - 210 tons.


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