MOSCOW, August 26 The problem of using the Soyuz spacecraft from the Vostochny cosmodrome is related to the rescue system , these issues are being studied, Roscosmos CEO Yuri Borisov said on Thursday.
“We’ll work on it with our colleagues, the problem is in the rescue system, it should work differently than with Baikonur. If we find a solution, it’s advisable,” Borisov said at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with young rocket scientists — space industry.
As Vladimir Solovyov, general designer and deputy general director of RSC Energia, explained, when flying from Vostochny to orbits like those in which the International Space Station flies, the ship almost immediately finds itself above the Pacific Ocean.