CO-OPERATION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND AUSTRALIA IN THE SPACE FIELD








MOSCOW, March 11.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti ").  Russian government A
accepts the proposal of national Agency aerospatiale on the
realization of work united with the Australian company " the space
Center of the Asia-Pacific ".  A bearing decree on this co-operation
has ete sign by Russian the Prime Minister Mikhail Kassianov.

It is about the co-operation in the design of a news fusee " Dawn "
and construction on the island of Christmas in Indian Ocean of a
cosmodrome for the civil space launching of fusees.

Russia will provide has the Australian company of the terrestrial
equipment and the documentation of study and exploitation for the
fusee " Dawn ".  Russia will produce and provide in addition to
fusees-carrying and of the blocks of acceleration, of the Russian
specialists will procederont with the launching of space apparatuses
from the island of Christmas.