Ukraine plans to build a marine spaceport by 2025 .
Ukraine plans to build a “Sea Launch” by 2025 – a spaceport based on a marine platform that would allow the launch of rockets from the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Volodymyr Taftay, the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, told Public about this in an interview .
Ukraine , Ukraingate , 7 , February , 2022 | Ukraine News
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“There are preliminary estimates and developments in this direction, within the space program it is planned to implement this project. This means that within these five years (2021-2025 – ed.) All this must be implemented in metal and will work as complex “, – claims Taftay.
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According to him, the cost of the “Sea Launch” is estimated at 4.8 billion hryvnias.
“It’s quite a small cost, we use the technological units, the infrastructure that Ukrainian companies have,” he said.
The cost of maintaining the maritime spaceport, explained the head of the State Space Agency, will depend on the size of the rocket to be launched. Therefore, the “Sea Launch” is designed to launch light rockets, which “will be attractive to both space system operators and those who launch satellites, ie customers.”
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On Wednesday, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the National Targeted Scientific and Technical Space Program of Ukraine for 2021-2025.
Source: Ukrgate
