The first Russian ship carrying equipment for the Soyuz launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, will start its journey in July, Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos told journalists at ILA.
The launch complex for the Soyuz rockets in Kourou, known as ELS, is being built as an alternative launch site to Baikonur and Plesetsk in Russia.
The construction site was officially opened in February 2007, by Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General and the first launch was originally cited as the "end of 2008". This has now slipped to "no later than March 2009."
The Russian space exhibition at ILA features 12 key enterprises, including RKK Energia, Khrunichev space center, Energomash, Lavochkin and TsKB Samara Progress. Barmin’s KBO has a model of the new Soyuz launch site in Kourou.
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