Baiterek space rocket made in Kazakhstan

The Baiterek project will cost up to 200 million dollars, another Roskosmos employee said on condition of anonymity. The Angara project will mainly be used to put Russian military satellites in space and should replace the powerful rocket currently used, the Proton.

It is scheduled for completion in 2008 at the Plessetsk space station in Russia's northwest.

Unlike the Proton, which uses a toxic fuel, both Baitarek and Angara will be powered by a cleaner fuel mixture of liquid oxygen and kerosene.