On Wednesday he inspected the Khrunichev State Space Centre as part of his Russian visit.
"There is agreement between the Federal Space Agency and the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the preparation of a joint space programme for Kazakhstan", the Kazakh premier said.
Alexander Medvedev, chief of the Khrunichev Centre, noted: "The programme we talked with FSA head Anatoli Perminov is now in the making. It will be ready before June 10".
The Khrunichev Centre has won the tender for the creation of the first Kazakh national communication satellite KazSat. It will be orbited on December 25, 2005. The project will be financed from the state innovation fund of Kazakhstan, formed in 2003. The service zone of the satellite will include Kazakhstan, countries in Central Asia and heartland Russia.
The 1,380-kilogramme Kazakh satellite will be docked to the versatile space platform Yakhta, manufactured by the Khrunichev Centre, and have between 10 and 12 transmitter transponders.
The Kazakh-Russian agreement, concluded in January 2004, intends the creation of a new launch system. Baiterek, a system for launching different kinds of satellites, is being built on the base of the new Russian carrier rocket Angara, firing environmentally-friendly space fuel components - kerosene and oxygen.
Baiterek, to be in service on the equal-share terms, will cost Kazakhstan about 200 million dollars.
Alexander Medvedev personally handed over to Danial Akhmetov the draft intergovernmental agreement on creating the Baiterek missile system and launch of the first Kazakh satellite Kazsat.
