OREANDA-NEWS. The DniproVazhMash enterprise (Dnipropetrovsk) will produce equipment for a ground facility of the space center, which is being built near the Equator, according to an agreement between Ukraine and Brazil, reported the Official website www.kmu.gov.ua.

The news was announced by Deputy Director General of the National Space Agency of Ukraine Serhiy Baulin at the fifth international scientific-practical conference "Engineering as the source of mining metallurgy efficiency", which was underway in Dnipropetrovsk.

The space center is being built by the joint Ukrainian - Brazilian venture Alcantara Cyclone Space, which, according to the bipartite agreement, concluded in 2003, is responsible for establishment and exploitation of the ground facility Cyclone-4 at the Alcantara launching center.

The first rocket from the new space center is to be launched in 2009.