Creation of ‘Baiterek’ missile system is underway
BAIKONUR. September 24. KAZINFORM We started to implement the measures on creation of Space Missile System (SMS) "Baiterek" in practice; Head of Kazcosmos Talgat Mussabayev and Head of Roscosmos Anatoly Perminov have informed of it today at the press-conference after XII session of Intergovernmental Committee on Cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan.
Following the results of two-day work of experts Mussabayev and Perminov signed of the XII session of subcommittee on "Baikonur" complex.
"18 ministries and thousand of enterprises worked in the USSR in order to build similar missile-space system that is why we are carrying out a meticulous work", - Mussabayev said. According to him Kazcosmos will start construction of "Baiterek" in 2010.
The Head of Kazcosmos also informed that a decision on relocation of the "Baiterek" construction site was made at the session of the subcommittee.
The next 13th session of the subcommittee on "Baikonur" Complex will take place next year in October in Astana city.