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Rossiya 24© Russian rocket releases toxic fuel after blast in Kazakhstan An unmanned Russian carrier rocket exploded on takeoff at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, releasing tonnes of highly toxic fuel into the air in the space programme's latest disaster caught on live television.
02 July 2013
Rossiya 24© Russia’s Proton-M explodes at Baikonur About 600 tons of heptyl, a highly toxic fuel, might have been spilled around.
02 July 2013
International trio takes shortcut to space station An international trio flying in a Russian capsule docked the International Space Station on Wednesday with a busy schedule full of space walks and an encounter with a pioneering US cargo craft.
29 May 2013
Rocket transportation to launch site at Baikonur. ©RIA Novosti Kazakhstan to make Baikonur rocket launches a tourist attraction Kazakhstan wants to make rocket launches from Baikonur cosmodrome a tourist attraction.
28 May 2013
Baikonur cosmodrome. RIA Novosti © Kazakhstan to continue space cooperation with Russia at Baikonur even beyond 2050: KazKosmos National Space Agency Tengrinews.kz reported earlier, citing Russia’s Izvestia, that Russia may bring its operations at the Baikonur cosmodrome close to zero as early as by 2020.
12 April 2013
Baikonur cosmodrome. RIA Novosti © Russia’s President believes Kazakhstan-based Baikonur is obsolete We are aligning projects so that Baikonur could be also used. Surely, we will be exploiting it in partnership with space experts and agencies of Kazakhstan: Vladimir Putin.
12 April 2013
Launch from Baikonur. RIA Novosti © Russia’s Roskosmos Space Agency suggests two scenarios of operations at Baikonur Along the crisis scenario, Baikonur infrastructure will only be supported after 2021 to accommodate individual launches.
08 April 2013
Tengrinews.kz stock photo Kazakhstan and Russia may revise Baikonur agreement The joint use of Baikonur cosmodrome rented by Russia from Kazakhstan has to be reviewed: head of Roskosmos.
05 April 2013
Baikonur cosmodrome. ©REUTERS Baiterek SRC project to be based on Zenit rocket Kazakhstan and Russia agreed to use Zenit launcher in Baiterek (SRC) space rocket complex.
01 April 2013
Three astronauts blast off on express ride to ISS A crew of two Russians and an American blasted off Friday on a Russian rocket for the International Space Station, in a trip scheduled to be the fastest ever manned journey to the facility.
29 March 2013
Proton launcher. ©RIA Novosti Russia to solve problems with Kazakhstan by abandoning Proton Head of RosKosmos Vladimir Popovkin declared that Proton launchers would be withdrawn from service after 2020.
29 March 2013
At Baikonur cosmodrome. ©RIA Novosti Baikonur may become one of EXPO-2017 centers in Kazakhstan Baikonur space center is going to be part of the EXPO-2017 in Kazakhstan.
26 March 2013
Rzakul Nurtayev. ©e-kyzylorda.gov.kz New Kazakhstan President’s special representative at Baikonur appointed Outgoing Sabit Kozhakhmetov has been relieved of his duties of President’s special representative at Baikonur as he is being transferred to another position.
07 March 2013
©RIA Novosti Russia accepts gradual withdrawal of Baikonur facilities out of lease: Vice Head of Russia’s RosKosmos Space Agency According to him, in return, Kazakhstan doesn’t prevent Russia from launching Proton carrier rockets.
14 February 2013
Baikonur. ©REUTERS Kazakhstan’s Vice PM: decisions over Baikonur to uphold national interests The Kazakh side will respect all the agreements reached earlier with Russia, our major strategic partner: Vice PM Kairat Kelimbetov.
13 February 2013
A rocket carrier at Baikonur. Photo courtesy of federalspace.ru First 2013 space launch at Baikonur A Soyuz-2.1 a rocket carrier carrying 6 Globalstar-2 communications satellites will be launched at 22:20 Astana time.
05 February 2013
Soyuz carrier rocket. RIA Novosti© Russia’s Roskosmos Federal Agency’s 2012 spending on infrastructure and space facilities at Baikonur exceeds $33 million Center for ground-based space infrastructure facilities operation (TsENKI) injected another $ 83.2 million into the cosmodrome’s facilities.
04 February 2013
Soyuz carrier rocket. RIA Novosti© Kazakhstan and Russia agree on rocket drop zone for Soyuz launches The Russian side will pay $460 000 a year for the use of the rocket drop zone regardless of the number of Soyuz launches.
30 January 2013
© RIA Novosti Russia’s Roskosmos Space Agency may consider reducing the number of Proton launches from Baikonur after 2015 We have a clear agreement with Kazakhstan on launches from 2013 to 2015 inclusive: Roskosmos Head Vladimir Popovkin.
29 January 2013
Baikonur. ©REUTERS Intergovernmental committee for Baikonur to sit in March 2013 January 30 Russia’s First Vice PM Igor Shuvalov and Kazakhstan’s Vice PM Kairat Kelimbetov are expected to meet to discuss preparation for the sitting.
29 January 2013

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