N.A. Semikhatov Scientific Production Association of Yekaterinburg and V.P. Makeev design office of Miass, Chelyabinsk Region, have been negotiating on the order to modernize Brazilian carrier rocket.

RosCosmos and Space Agency of Brazil signed the intention transactions as early as October 2005, Deputy GD of N.A. Semikhatov Scientific

Production Association Lev Belskiy reported. The negotiations will have to be carried on into late February and, after the contract has been signed, the Association is going to get down to designing the rocket-control system using some earlier schemes, including those used for Russian Soyuz-2 rocket.