Kazakh space agency seeks extra funding for new Baikonur launch pad

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty Source – RIA Novosti: Kazakh space agency seeks extra funding for new Baikonur launch pad 10:44 06/12/2010 © RIA Novosti. Oleg Urusov Kazakhstan's national space agency, Kazcosmos, has requested more funding for the joint Russian-Kazakh project to build a new launch pad at the Baikonur space center. In late December 2004, Russia and Kazakhstan signed the deal to build a new launch pad, named Baiterek, to send into space Angara carrier rockets capable of delivering 26 metric tons of payload to low-Earth orbits. The project is being implemented on a parity basis. "Today a problem emerged in implementing this project – we have trouble with repaying a budgeting loan, the grace period of which expired in November," the agency's chief, Talgat Musabayev, told Prime Minister Karim Masimov. . . . [Full Story]

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