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Russian space industry chief blasts US for'waging trade war
MOSCOW, May IO: Russia ■ space Industry supremo Alexandre Dunayev has accused the United States of waging a trade war to smash space pro gramme cooperation between Russia and India. Interfax news agency reported, reports AFP
Washington has threatened to Impose economic sanction on both countries If Russia de livers rocket boosters to India, arguing that an agreement on rocket technology transfer would Infringe the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), which restricts proliferation of the rockets able to carry nuclear warheads.
Dunayev, president of Russia's Glavkosmos Space Complex, said the boosters In question — designed in the !96Os for the Russian moon programme — could not be adapted to military purposes
He added that Russia and India are both willing to coop erate with an international in qutry to determine whether the exchange would break the ABM Treaty.
He pointed out that the United States Is close to clinching a similar space technology transfer agreement with China, and is worried that India might Join the ranks of countries able to put geostationary communications satellites into orbit.
About 65.000 people work on the Russo-Indian project, and the contract is worth 700 million rupees (25 million dollars) to Glavkosmos. said Dunayev
But US officials say the deal is worth about 200 million dol
Meanwhile. India has begun
final preparations to launch a rocket In the next few weeks amid a row with the United States over Russian plans to sell It space technology, the Press Trusts of India (PTI) said today
India intends to launch Its Indigenously built augmented satellite launch vehicle (ASLV) "within a few weeks time" tn either May or June, officials said Pre flight checks on the modified ASLV have begun at a launch pad In Sriharikota off India's southeast coast. PTI said
Two previous bids to launch the rocket In 1987 and 1988 both ended In disaster.
"The pre-countdown checks In progress at the launch centre will be followed by a countdown about 48 hours before the actual blast- off." said Suresh Chandra Gupta, di rector of the Vlckram Sarabhal Space Centre, the builders of x the ASLV.
The announcement coin rides with a row over the con troveralal plan by Russia to transfer Its rocket technology to India.
New Delhi has said it will not bow to pressure from Washington, arguing that the planned deal did not violate the MTCR as the technology was meant for civilian purposes.
The Russian technology Is vital for the second phase of India's fledgling space programme. New Delhi has said, adding that It was not against buying the know-how from the West If It could match Moscows price tag.
Gupta said the modified 24 metre (79-foot) ASLV Is de
signed to place a 150-ktlogram (330-pound) satellite Into space, adding that it will orbit earth at an altitude of 450 kilometres (280 miles) and collect civilian data
Faults, which led to the two previous crashes, have been rectified tn the latest ASLV. he
When India launched the ASLV In 1087 and 1988 the vehicle and Its payload crashed both times minutes after liftoff into the Bay of Bengal, dealing a blow to the country's am btttous space programme.
According to military ex perts, the ASLV will be capable of carrying medium-range missiles, but New Delhi has not commented on this