16.04.2007, 17.21
BERLIN, April 16 (Itar-Tass) - An agreement to form an international company to implement the “Air Start” project was signed on Monday at the world’s biggest Hanover Industrial Fair. This unique project, implemented jointly with Indonesia, was included in the Federal Space Program of Russia.
In conformity with the signed agreement, it is planned to build, jointly with Indonesia, a little cosmodrome on Biak Island, located seventy kilometres away from the Equator. It will be used to launch light-weight sputniks, Director-General of the “Air Start” aerospace corporation Anatoly Karpov told Itar-Tass. The Memorandum on Intentions, which was also signed on Monday, stipulates an order to launch light-class telecommunication geostationary sputniks, he added.
Equatorial launches will substantially improve the performance of the “Air Start” complex and will make it competitive on the world market of launching services, Robert Ivanov, the corporation’s chief constructor, stated in turn. The launching of sputniks from Biak Island will make the orbiting of cargoes much cheaper.
Taking part in the meeting also was Head of the Federal Agency for Industry Boris Alyoshin.
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