| The satellite will be carried into space from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan by a Soyuz launcher. |
| They went to the cosmodrome at Plesetsk, along with other young scientists from Edinburgh and Zurich and a party from the European Space Agency. |
| It is re-equipping old Soviet bases there and in July tested the first of its new-generation rockets, called the Angara, from a cosmodrome in the high north. |
| The Baikonur cosmodrome was constructed in the 1950s and is the world's oldest working launch site. |
| Russia is scheduled to test its first Angara in December but from a facility near the Arctic. Back at the cosmodrome, Russia's secret police control access to the nearby town of Baikonur, where the engineers live. |
| It was launched on 27 december 2006 from the Baikonour cosmodrome on a Soyuz Fregat II-1b launcher. |
