Rogozin conducted train with the first “Union” for the cosmodrome East – RBC

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin

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From Samara on the spaceport under construction off East train to block the carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1a”, which will first start with the new site.

“This event is very important for us. The Commission for the construction of the cosmodrome Vostochny decided to send a rocket today. It Samarians their product Russia opened the way to space. We need your spaceport and “Union” opens up the road. I wish the team the special train “maneuvers do not push and slide to keep an”. Let the rocket reaches intact “- quoted by Interfax Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who attended the ceremony.

As told RIA Novosti Head of Production Space-Rocket Center” Progress “Vadim Neboga, the rate of the special train is not exceed 60 kilometers per hour, it will come into place in 38 days. “The railway carrier rocket” Soyuz-2.1a “sent to the cosmodrome East. “Soyuz-2.1a” will arrive at the launch site in 38 days. The train will travel on a special route. The distance is about seven thousand kilometers. There are speed limits – no more than 60 kilometers per hour, “- he said.

Cosmodrome Vostochny, which should become the main launch pad for Russian rockets instead of remaining in Kazakhstan, Baikonur is scheduled to open the first missile launch December 25, 2015 year. “Soyuz-2.1a” to the block elimination “Volga” is to put into orbit a Russian satellites “Lomonosov” and “Stork-2D».

The construction of the spaceport is lagging and has been associated with numerous scandals, accusations of embezzlement , worker strikes and prosecutions. Construction of the East took personal control of President Vladimir Putin.

In July, Deputy Spetsstroy Alexander Mordovets in an interview with RBC said that eight out of 23 objects of construction of the first stage of the cosmodrome will not have time to create the first launch in December 2015, their decided to postpone the end of 2016 and a later date.

In August, Interfax source in the rocket and space industry said that the first launch could be postponed from December 2015 to the beginning of 2016, if not will be able to eliminate the backlog in the schedule of the construction of the main objects of the cosmodrome.