"Roskosmos" launched a webcast of the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome

The Federal Space Agency launched an online broadcast from the construction site of the Vostochny cosmodrome. January 30, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin proposed this measure in order to achieve the deadlines for the construction of the spaceport. During the last visit, Rogozin once again made sure that the lag persists, although dynamics was noticed. Cameras transmitted a picture before, but only for Rogozin himself. Now anyone can get acquainted with the state of the construction site.

Two broadcasts without a sound resolution of 320 × 240 pixels are available. They can be monitored either on the official Roscosmos website , or on the portal of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation . To view, you need to install a VLC video player with a browser plugin. It is also possible to open the broadcast in the player, their addresses 87.245.169.78:8551/ 87.245.169.78:8551/ and 87.245.169.78:8552/ 87.245.169.78:8552/ .

Vostochny is designed to provide Russia with a spaceport on its own territory. Today Roskosmos can launch manned spacecraft only from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, the lease term of which is finite. The infrastructure of Vostochny is far from complete, construction is late.
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Now the construction should reach the finish line. The deadlines remain in force: the entire infrastructure must be ready for summer, the first flights are scheduled for December, and the first manned launch is scheduled for 2018. In 2015, the creation of launch and technical complexes for the new Angara rocket will begin. Full commissioning is scheduled for 2020.