The first launch from the Baikonur East scheduled for April 27 – IA Amur.info

The State Commission has scheduled the first launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region on April 27, 2016. Experts agreed on the appointment of the first starting at 05:01, Moscow time, on this day, considered the results of comprehensive tests Baikonur launch facility and preparing the launch vehicle “Soyuz 2.1a».

According to Roskosmos, enterprise experts state corporation We started prelaunch preparation of Vostochny cosmodrome systems, launch vehicle and spacecraft.

Removal of the carrier rocket “Soyuz 2.1a” with the removal unit “Volga” and spacecraft “Lomonosov”, “Aist-2D” and “Contact-nano-satellite» ( «SamSat-218″) to the launch facility is scheduled for April 23.

March 25, it became known that in the East ended the test launch complex, during which rocket “Soyuz-2 “I was removed from the technical complex to the launch and set to the starting system. As stated in the Federal Space Agency, all systems worked nominally.

Federal Space Agency announced a competition for the right to sign the agreement on insurance launch of the carrier rocket “Soyuz 2.1a” from the cosmodrome East. The price of the contract, according to information posted on the website of public procurement, – 146.7 million rubles. Also, Roskosmos has announced an open tender for the right to enter into an Agreement for the provision of insurance services “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket launch facility on the East. The price of this contract – 89 million rubles. The Office plans to hold a series of celebratory actions, “dedicated to the anniversary of the April 12, 2016 and on the day of launch of the carrier rocket” Soyuz “from Baikonur East no later than May 25, 2016».

Initially, the first launch from the East, which built in the Amur region, was scheduled for December 25, 2015. In October 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin has postponed it, but asked, “adjusted in the spring,” and added that it would be good to have time to Cosmonautics Day, which is celebrated on 12 April. The first manned flight from Baikonur is scheduled for 2018.