KIEV, Jan. 30 – Two launches of the Ukrainian-Russian Dnepr rocket from the Yasny launch base (Orenburg region, Russia) are scheduled for 2012, Yuriy Alekseyev, head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine told journalists on Friday.

"An application has been prepared for two launches from the Yasny launch base in 2012," he said.

According to Alekseyev, the Dnepr launch vehicle is to place the KomSat-5 South Korean Earth monitoring satellite into orbit in April-May. In September-October, the launch vehicle is to put several Arabian satellites plus Ukrainian payload into orbit. They also plan to continue working on experimental avionics.