"Russian assets reportedly banned from export at the Baikonur cosmodrome by Kazakh authorities."

"In March 2023, reports emerged that Kazakh authorities introduced a formal ban on the export of TsENKI assets from Baikonur into Russia and issued orders for the local head of the organization not to leave the country."

"TsENKI is a Russian organization that specializes in the development and operation of launch facilities and ground equipment."

Apparently this jeopardizes the ability of the Russians to operate the Soyuz-5 from the Baikonur spaceport.

If true this will force the Russians to switch to the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian Far East. It's located north of Harbin, China, on the Russian side of the border. I would've thought they would have put it further south (as close to the equator as possible), so it would be near Vladivostok, but in fact it's a bit north of Vladivostok and that piece of Russia that sticks south to the North Korean border.

Russian assets reportedly banned from export at the Baikonur cosmodrome by Kazakh authorities

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