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俄將興建新基地 2018年前進行載人太空飛行
法新社╱張佑之 2008-01-23 22:05
(法新社莫斯科二十三日電)俄羅斯各通訊社今天引述第一副總理伊凡諾夫的話說,十分藉重鄰國哈薩克境內一座基地來推動太空計畫的俄國,將為二零一八年之前的載人太空飛行建造自己的發射基地。
俄羅斯東南部阿穆爾區的這座伏斯托契尼新基地將取代貝康諾基地,而貝康諾是蘇聯時期建造的設施,如今俄國向哈薩克租用。阿穆爾區毗鄰中國。
俄羅斯新聞社和國際傳真社報導,伊凡諾夫表示,「以軍事術語來說,我們將開闢『第二戰線』」。
他說:「在二零一六年之前,這座新的太空發射基地應已就緒,可供發射任何種類的火箭;而在二零一八年之前,依據計畫,我們也將可自這座基地展開載人太空飛行。」
他說:「此事與確保我國能獨立進出太空有關,事實上,我們在阿穆爾區所建立的不僅是一座特別的設施,也是一座真正的城市。」
俄國與美國正推行全世界最活躍的太空計畫,相關的載人航空器分別由貝康諾和卡納維爾角起飛,至於中國酒泉太空中心則是第三座能處理載人任務的設施。
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080123/sc_afp/russiaspace_080123101601
New Russian space base to send manned flights by 2018
Wed Jan 23, 5:16 AM ET
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia, whose space programme relies heavily on a base in neighbouring Kazakhstan, is to build its own launch site for manned flights by 2018, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov was quoted as saying Wednesday.
The new Vostochny base in the Amur region of southeast Russia, bordering China, will be an alternative to the Baikonur base, a Soviet-built facility that Russia now leases from Kazakhstan.
"To use a military term, we will open a 'second front,'" Ivanov said, Russian news agencies RIA Novosti and Interfax reported.
"By 2016 the new cosmodrome should be ready for rocket launches of any type and by 2018 it is planned that we will also be able to make manned flights from there," Ivanov said.
"It is linked to ensuring our country's independent access to space. In fact we are building not just a special facility in the Amur region, but a true city."
Russia and the United States run the world's most active space programmes, with manned flights from Baikonur or Cape Canaveral in Florida.
China's Jiuquan Space Centre is the third facility capable of handling manned missions.
The Vostochny base is to be built on the site of unfinished facility previously known as Svobodny at the settlement of Uglegorsk, which is located in a restricted zone.
In 1994, Russia agreed to rent Baikonur from Kazakhstan for 115 million dollars (91 million euros) annually, and this will continue until 2050 under a new agreement signed in 2004 by President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev.
However in 2006 Russia said it would withdraw all military personnel from Baikonur for relocation to a rocket launching centre at Plesetsk near Arkhangelsk in northern Russia.
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