Preparing to abandon Baikonur , Roscosmos , Russia ’s Federal Space Agency is stifle deep in progress their new spaceport , call the Vostochny Cosmodrome ( Eastern Spaceport ) in the Russian Far East .
According to the architectural plan , when complete , the Vostochny Cosmodrome is give way to foreshorten Russia ’s dependency on Kazakhstan , owner of the Baikonur Cosmodrome where the first man was establish to space .
After several years of preparation , re - planning and postponing , the new spaceport set off to take shape this year at the newfangled situation in the Amur region . Roscosmos specializer recently complete the installment of the first set of equipment at the bid post : the ego - check power supply system of the launching complex , now in test mode . They also start to get together the freight building block for two rocket - carrying trains .
The Brobdingnagian electro - hydraulic super - social organisation supporting the bash of the rockets on the launch inkpad before rise off is ready to standalone test as well , just as the 50 - metre - tall , 1500 - gross ton Mobile River service tower ( stop the gloomy - yellow and gray-haired equipments in the photos below ) . The radar domes and dish antennas of the complex communication system seem to be completed .
A total of seven launch pads will be built at the new cosmodrome , if everything goes well Soyuz-2 launches are going to begin at LD1 this year . The Russian distance delegacy has been posting photos of the future launch web site of their rocket salad on theirFacebook , FlickrandVKpages for a while , the following images show how the expression work proceed .
exposure : Igor Ageenko / Roscosmos
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