The Yuzhmash plant reported on the current pace of work on the assembly of Zenit rockets.
"Manufacture of carrier rockets of the family" Zenith "continues. Right now two products are in active production. Another, under the national telecommunications satellite "Lybid", is waiting for the financing, "- noted in the message" Yuzhmash ".
Earlier, the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine Pavel Degtyarenko said that "it will be necessary to do everything necessary so that in the second half of 2018 Ukraine will get its own communication satellite in near-earth orbit".
Currently, Lybid is located at the Russian main developer - the company "Information Satellite Systems" located in Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory).