MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. Russia's Roscosmos still wants to set up launch sites for carrier rockets at foreign spaceports, Sergey Krikalyov, the agency's deputy head for manned space programs, said at the 3rd International Symposium "Creating the Future."

"We had a joint program in which a launch pad for Soyuz-class launch vehicles was built at the spaceport in French Guiana; they launched successfully from there as the closer you are to the equator, the more efficiently you can deliver a payload. We still want to explore establishing launch complexes in other countries. A lot depends on the overall state of logistics, because it's easier to launch a rocket than to transport it, and manufacturing it there is practically impossible," he noted.

Krikalyov said creating a space surveillance system and refining navigation parameters would be better-suited tasks for cooperation. "Joint projects with various countries will be continued; we always welcome the expansion of international cooperation," he concluded.

Earlier, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Bakanov said that the state corporation was ready to discuss the supply of equipment and engines, as well as space rocket complex projects, with other countries. In addition, during a meeting with heads of diplomatic missions, the Roscosmos chief proposed cooperation within the framework of Russia’s emerging low-Earth orbit broadband Internet access system.