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Russia To Shut Down Svobodny Space Centre

Svobodny Space Centre
by Staff Writers
 Moscow (AFP) Mar 14, 2007
 Russia's Svobodny space centre, used in recent years to launch US and Israeli satellites, will be shut down Russian media reported on Wednesday. "Our authorities have received the official confirmation on this from Moscow," a spokesman for the governor of the Amour region, where the centre is based, told the Interfax news agency.

The administrative chief in the town of Uglegorsk, where the Svobodny centre is based, meanwhile said that an Israeli satellite launch was scheduled there for 2008, but could not confirm that it would go ahead as planned.

When contacted by AFP, Russia's military space forces' press service refused to divulge any information on upcoming launches.

The Svobdny centre was built in 1996 to enable Russia to conduct launches further south than its Plessetsk space centre in the north of the country.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Moscow lost its Baikonur base in Kazakhstan and has since been forced to rent it.

Source: Agence France-Presse

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