SP Baiterek

The Baiterek space rocket system is designed to carry out commercial space programs and projects, as well as the implementation of national space programs of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation.

History

2024: The Government of the Russian Federation approved the project for the creation of the Baitarek complex

In April 2024, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree approving the draft protocol with amendments to the agreement between Russia and Kazakhstan on the creation of the Baiterek space rocket system in Baikonur.

It follows from the document that flight tests of the Baiterek with a middle-class launch vehicle will begin in 2025. It is planned to carry out at least three test launches of the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle until 2027.

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Flight tests of the Baiterek complex were postponed from 2023 to 2025 due to the difficult geopolitical situation in the world, which led to a break in supply chains for the supply of components and materials, which led to an increase in the duration of work, the explanatory note to the draft resolution says.

The draft protocol, relevant for April 2024, provides for the placement of orders for the withdrawal of spacecraft from Baiterek by the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle and its possible modifications "in the amount of at least three launches per year in the period from 2028 to 2039." Previously, the dates from 2025 to 2036 were assumed. The period for similar orders within the framework of the implementation of state projects in Kazakhstan is also changing in the same way, RIA Novosti reports with reference to this document.

The draft new protocol provides that "placing orders for the launch of spacecraft from Baiterek into orbit by the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle and its possible modifications, in the amount of at least two launches per year in the period from 2028 to 2039." The previous version of the document spoke about the placement of orders in the period from 2025 to 2036.

According to the general director of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov, the Russian state corporation cooperates and is in close contact with colleagues from Kazakhstan. He recalled that the parties are connected by the Baiterek project^[1]

2020: Plans for the creation of the Baiterek missile system

On July 30, 2020, in the city of Baikonur, a ceremony was held to sign an agreement on the conclusion of a contract between the Rocket and Space Corporation Energy"" (part of the state corporation Roskosmos"") and the Baiterek joint venture (Joint Kazakhstanithe Russian Venture Baiterek JSC) for the provision of services for the creation of the Baiterek space rocket complex based on the latest generation medium-class space rocket for launching unmanned spacecraft. This became known on July 30, 2020.

The Baiterek project provides for the creation of the Baiterek missile system on the basis of the Zenit-M ground space infrastructure at the Baikonur cosmodrome for the launch of the Soyuz-5 middle-class launch vehicle.

The agreement was signed by Igor Ozar, Director General of RSC Energia, and Kuat Mustafinov, Director General of the Baiterek joint venture. The signing took place in the presence of the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin and Vice Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan Azamat Batyrkozh.

The press service of the state corporation Roscosmos noted that the Baiterek project is certainly significant and very important in the cooperation of the parties.

This space rocket system will be used to launch the Russian Soyuz-5 launch vehicle, the creation of which is in full swing in Russia. The complex will be used both for the implementation of commercial projects and in the interests of the implementation of Russian and Kazakhstani national space programs, a spokesman for Roscosmos said. - The project will be the very clear and understandable future that Russian and Kazakh leaders of the space industry have repeatedly spoken about. Thanks to it, the multiplier effect will work, and jobs will appear on the complex; Kazakhstani companies will be involved in the relevant work. These are additional taxes, these are qualified personnel, this is an improvement in the quality of life of Baikonurians. And finally, this is the preservation of the cosmodrome, the continuation of its glorious history.

The press service of the state corporation did not disclose the details of the contract.

Plans to launch Soyuz-5 and Soyuz-6 rockets from the Baiterek space complex at Baikonur were announced back in November 2019 by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin. According to him, both Soyuz-5 and the two-stage Soyuz-6 rocket will start from the Zenit-M launch complex, which was intended to launch the Zenit Baiterek rocket^[2], into space.]

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