“We proceed from the fact that in 2020 the modernization of the launch complex, the former Zenit complex, will begin,” RIA Novosti quoted Rogozin as saying.
The head of Roscosmos noted that according to his information, budget investments were included in the 2020 budget of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
He added that Soyuz-5 and Soyuz-6 missiles will fly from the modernized former Zenit launch complex.
On October 27, Sergey Kuznetsov, general designer of the Salyut Design Bureau of the Khrunichev Center, said that flight tests of the KVTK oxygen-hydrogen booster block on the Angara heavy-lift carrier rocket were planned for 2027.
On October 16, Rogozin announced that it was planned to launch the Soyuz-2 commercial launch vehicle from the Gagarin launch site of the Baikonur cosmodrome after its modernization.