An array of huge-scale contracts had been signed at the first day of the MAKS-2013 airshow, just outside Moscow.
Defense
The United Aircraft Corporation and the Defense Ministry have signed a 80 billion ruble ($2.5 billion) contract for the servicing of aircraft, avionics and related equipment, the UAC said in a statement.
The contract, the biggest thus far, was signed within the presence of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
UAC president Mikhail Pogosyan said the corporation’s current portfolio of orders for the Defense Ministry was for over 300 planes while the entire volume of orders as portion of the state arms procurement program could be about 600 aircraft.
Under a separate deal, the Defense Ministry will receive three modernized A-50U AWACS aircraft this year, said Vartan Shakhgedanov, deputy general designer on the Vega concern that produces the planes. a freelance for a fourth plane is anticipated to be signed shortly, he added.
Shakhgedanov also said the Defense Ministry would receive the 1st of the 2 advanced Tu-214ON planes equipped for the Open Skies international program, on the MAKS airshow. The contract for the 2 aircraft is worth 5 billion rubles ($150 million), he added. The Defense Ministry currently uses four An-30 aircraft and one Tu-154MLK-1 under the Open Skies Agreement.
Russia’s state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport and the Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Corporation have signed a freelance for the delivery of a VIP version of a Superjet-100, to be delivered before the top of the present year.
The 19-seat plane may be used to facilitate Russia’s military collaboration with other countries.
Civil Aviation
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co., the UTair airline and VEB Leasing signed a freelance for the delivery of six Sukhoi Superjet-100LR planes worth $217.2 million.
Deliveries of the 103-seat planes will start next year. The 3 companies previously signed a preliminary agreement for the delivery of 24 Superjets because the first stage of the implementation of a leasing agreement signed ahead of that.
UTair is planning to function the planes both on domestic flights (western Siberia and European Russia) and on flights to Europe.
The Superjet-100 (SSJ-100) is a brief-to-medium-haul passenger aircraft developed by Sukhoi in collaboration with US and European aviation corporations including Boeing, Snecma, Thales, Messier Dowty, Liebherr Aerospace and Honeywell.
UTair and VEB Leasing also on Tuesday signed a memorandum of intent for the lease of 10 MS-21-300 airliners. Under the deal, the aircraft can be provided between 2018 and 2020. MS-21 aircraft, currently in development, are to interchange all models of Tu-154 and Tu-134 aircraft, in addition to the Yak-42 in Russia, with initial deliveries as a result of start in 2017.
Space
Two launches of Russian Soyuz rockets should be produced from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana before the top of the present year and 4 next year, French Space Agency head Jean-Yves Le Gall told RIA Novosti on the MAKS-2013 airshow on Tuesday.
On September 30, Russia will orbit four 03b Networks satellites to produce broadband Internet access in remote areas, and on November 20 will send up the Gaia telescope for the ecu Space Agency.
The O3b Networks satellites are designed and built by Thales Alenia Space to become part of the primary medium-Earth-orbit satellite constellation providing broadband Internet access in remote areas of the realm.
Next year, Soyuz-ST rockets will orbit a Galileo navigation satellite, new O3b clusters and a Sentinel satellite as section of the ESA’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security program, Le Gall said.
There aren’t any plans to extend the choice of launches from Kourou, he said.
The Soyuz-ST is a modification of the 3-stage Soyuz-2 rocket with a Fregat upper stage adapted for launch in high heat and humidity prevalent in Kourou.
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