Construction of the Vostochny space centre will become the top priority for the country once the Olympic construction has been completed and emphasis should be placed on this site now, Russia's Vice-Premier Dmitry Rogozin said after visiting the facility in the Amur Region. Rogozin considers it necessary to increase several-fold the number of workers engaged in the construction of the cosmodrome Vostochny (Eastern). He said this on Monday during an inspection of the spaceport which is under construction in Amur Region. "Independent experts maintain that the number of workers at the cosmodrome Vostochny must be multiplied up to 15,000, at least," he pointed out.
Sergei Makarov, chief of the Federal unitary enterprise "SpetsStrojTekhnologii" Federal Agency for Special-Purpose Construction, said that at present the construction project employs 5,200-5,300 workers. Contractor are to reach out to the maximum number of workers engaged in the space-industry consruction project by the third quarter of 2014 "when the number of workers will be 8,000," Makarov pointed out. Rogozin called for multiplying the workforce in the project.
The construction of the cosmodrome Vostochny, near Uglegorsk Township in Amur Region, was started in the middle of 2012. The first launch of a space rocket is to be effected by 2015 and the launchings of manned spaceships are to begin by 2018.
Manned space missions will begin from the Vostochny spaceport, Amur region, in 2018, and Angara will be the launch vehicle, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said.
"The maiden launch of the Soyuz-2 LV from the Vostochny spaceport will be done in December 2015, and the manned Angara mission from the second launch site in 2018," Rogozin wrote on Twitter while visiting the Vostochny construction site.
The Vostochny spaceport with a total area nearing 700 square kilometers is under construction near the town of Uglegorsk in the Amur region, Russia's Far East.
The project was launched in the middle of 2012.
The Soyuz-2 launch site in Vostochny will provide launches of Soyuz-2.1a, Soyuz-2.1b and Soyuz-2.1v LV carrying satellites and resupply ships. The site will handle at least ten space launches a year.
Consistent with tender documentation, the Angara launch site will support Angara-1.2 light LV, Angara-3 medium LV and Angara-5 heavy LV.
Initially, the Angara launch site will incorporate a launcher and infrastructure to support Angara LV carrying spacecraft.
Later on, the launch site will provide satellite, oxygen-hydrogen upper stage and manned spaceship missions.
More workers should be recruited to build the Vostochny spaceport in the Amur region, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said.
"Independent experts say that the number of workers employed in Vostochny should grow manifold, at least to 15,000," Rogozin said on Monday as he was visiting the construction site.
"Some 5,200-5,300 workers are building [Vostochny] now and the workforce will reach its maximum, 8,000, by the third quarter of 2014," Spetsstroy of Russia's Spetsstroytekhnologii head Sergei Makarov told the deputy prime minister.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has ordered builders to strictly comply with the schedule in the construction of the Vostochny spaceport in the Amur region.
"You should think about the construction of not only the launch sites but also of the new town, Tsiolkovsky," he told contractors at a conference dedicated to the Vostochny project.
"Vostochny is a point of growth for the entire Russian Far East, a breath of fresh air for the Far Eastern region. Vostochny will not just provide for the space independence of Russia; the new town will accommodate space industry intellectuals," Rogozin said.
He ordered the builders "to display iron discipline in their compliance with the schedule."
"A Soyuz-2 launch vehicle is supposed to take off from here by the end of 2015, and we will not accept any excuses. An Angara will blast off from Plesetsk in the end of the second quarter of this year. We have launch vehicles, now we need launch sites," the vice-premier declared.
He ordered the builders engaged in the Vostochny project "to tell the Russian government immediately about all problems they were encountering."
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