The world’s largest operating cosmodrome, Baikonur, in March 2023, was at the epicenter of the scandal. Kazakhstan has seized the property of a company associated with Roscosmos for debt, reports FAN.
According to online publication Main Regionalny, the Russian Federation has extended Baikonur’s lease until the middle of the century, but the Kazakh side now wants to recover 13.5 billion tenge, or 2 billion rubles of debt, from Baikonur. Domestic specialists here use two launch pads for Soyuz-2 and Proton. However, by 2025 they may lose one of the launch complexes.
Baikonur delivers Russian cosmonauts to the ISS. The agreement with Washington on the ISS is valid until 2028, so until then Russia will still need the Kazakh spaceport. At the same time, the United States tried to suspend the treaty with Russia by 2024. If this happens, the need for Russian specialists to use Baikonur will automatically disappear.
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