& laquo; Roskosmos» Removed all staff from the temporarily closed Kuru launch site

All employees of Roscosmos who worked at the Kuru launch site in French Guiana were returned home, the press service of the state corporation reported on April 25. The plane with Russian specialists landed at 14:30 Moscow time at Sheremetyevo Airport. "The group of specialists of the NGO Lavochkin (part of the state corporation Roscosmos) of nine people, located at the launch site of the Guiana Space Center for carrying out critical regulatory operations with the acceleration unit Frigat-MT, finished the necessary works and on April 24, 2020 flew from the airport Kayena to Moscow with a transplant in Paris, the press service said. We remind that earlier against the background of the coronavirus pandemic 250 Russian specialists were removed to Russia from the Kuru launch site in French Guiana. The French authorities temporarily closed the launch site because of coronavirus, stopping all space launch programs.