BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 28. The construction of the Baiterek missile system at the Baikonur Cosmodrome operated jointly with Russia was postponed, Kazakh Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry Baghdat Musin said, Trend reports with reference to Kazakh media.
He noted that however the plans for it's construction remain, although the implementation timeline has shifted somewhat.
“We need this complex in order to keep Baikonur Cosmodrome relevant. The deadlines shifted due to the preparation of technical documentation, there are certain points on which reaching agreement is difficult. Nothing else led to the postponement," Musin said.
He noted that the project was postponed for approximately half a year, a year maximum.
"The work on preparing documentation is in full swing, no construction started as of yet," he added.
In 2021, Kazakhstan and Russia agreed on the main issues regarding the Baiterek joint project. The agreements were reached during a meeting of Kazakhstan’s then-Prime Minister Askar Mamin and ROSCOSMOS Director General Dmitry Rogozin.
The ROSCOSMOS report said that basic issues of launching the Baiterek joint project were agreed upon during the meeting. The agreements provide for the creation of the 'Soyuz-5' launch complex at Baikonur.
Kazakhstan’s Baikonur city is the administrative and living center of major Baikonur Cosmodrome. The city and the Cosmodrome together create a Baikonur complex, which Russia is renting from Kazakhstan till 2050.
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