Russia’s Roscosmos refused to bury the majority of projects under construction at the Vostochny space centre, told the magazine “Russian space”, Deputy General Director of the Center for exploitation of ground space infrastructure Sergey Kostarev. Previously, this object was discovered emptiness.
“unlike the Plesetsk cosmodrome, almost all the buildings of the launch complex in the East is not recessed. Modernized security management, increased reliability of the equipment and pledged a more efficient technological processes of preparation for start-up,” he said.
According to him, the advantage of the Eastern front of Plesetsk is the universality that allows to run not only unmanned spacecraft, but manned spacecraft.
In June, cosmonaut, Hero of Russia, the record for total time spent in space (878 days) Gennady Padalka said that space tourism is explained by the need of “Roscosmos” to survive.
In November 2019, the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said about the theft of 11 billion rubles from the funds allocated for the construction of the cosmodrome Vostochny.
In September 2018 on the procurement website appeared a request for emergency works to eliminate voids beneath the concrete base of the launch pad for rockets “Soyuz-2” was found on the East of the void.
the Cosmodrome Vostochny under construction in the Amur region. At present, almost completed the construction of the first facility designed to launch medium rocket “Soyuz-2”. Now at the cosmodrome under construction of the second phase, which will allow you to run a media family “Angara”. The construction of the cosmodrome are accompanied by numerous violations and corruption scandals.
