Baikonur. September 3. INTERFAX.RU - In 2013, from Baikonur already done 15 space launches by the end of the year it is planned to produce 11 more starts. As reported on Tuesday, "Interfax" a source at the launch site, as part of the Russian manned program should start from Baikonur two ships ("Soyuz TMA-10M" on September 26 and "Soyuz TMA-11M" Nov. 7), and November 21 - Cargo Ship "Progress M-21M". In addition, the rockets "Soyuz" will start twice more - December 17, with the Russian meteorological satellite "Meteor-M" N2 and 23 December with the Egyptian satellite communications EgyptSat-2, the source said. According to him, until the end of the year from Baikonur is scheduled to carry out 5 carrier rockets "Proton-M" (September 17 - Astra 2E, October 8 - Sirius FM-6, 1 November - Rainbow-1M, Dec. 5 - Inmarsat 5 F1, Dec. 26 - Express-AM5). Another start-up is scheduled from silo site 175 - booster "boom" in December will have to launch a satellite remote sensing of the earth "Condor-E," the source said. He did not rule out that some of the start-up scheduled for December, will move to the beginning of 2014.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:05:02 +0000
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