Ukraine will sign an agreement with Italy to set
up a consortium to launch Ukrainian Tsiklon rockets from Brazil.
This will be the final step toward setting up an international
group which will include participation from the United States,
Italy, Brazil and Ukraine. Italy's Avio and some U.S. firms plan
to participate in the project. They plan to increase the Tsiklon's
four-ton payload and fuel capacity, create a new control system
and modernize its engine. Brazil is preparing a new port and
railway link to get the rocket to the launch site. Ukraine and
Brazil signed a commercial space launch deal in November 1999,
under which the Tsiklon boosters are to be launched from Brazil's
equatorial launch site beginning in 2001. 
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