Russia and Kazakhstan to develop new space system

摘要

Yuri Solomonov, director and general designer of the Moscow-based Institute of Heat Engineering, said his institute could start work on the Ishim air-launched space system within the next year, writes Yuri Zaitsev. The Ishim project - being implemented on orders from the government of Kazakhstan - involves Russia's Aircraft Corporation MiG aircraft as a mother plane, paired with a space rocket developed by the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering, which has a reputation for its Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and the Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).