Launch tempo at Baykonur could have a higher tempo, depending upon length of spacecraft integration cycle and availability of clean rooms. There are more than a half dozen other commercial manufacturers of vehicles in the Ukraine and Russia with, technically speaking, access to launching, subject to concurrence of the military and the government. Some have booked launches at Baykonur themselves, others through U.S. aerospace companies, acting as their sales-representatives. Some meetings have occured btween U.S. and European commercial firms having synergistic interests in the Russian vehicle manufacturing industry. Some Russian companies have have entered into arrangements of varying complexity with both U.S. and European private industry, involving launches both in Russia, as well as in other countries, and in some cases without Rusisan government or military positons resolved.
Some Russian companies have no arrangements as yet for joint ventures with non-Russian companies.
In some cases manufacturers are collaborating in developing a new upper stage , or multiple-restart propulsion system, from proven subsystems of others. In some cases basic vehicle reliability is very high, based upon more than two hundred flights. In some cases launch discounts are available for unproven vehicle reliability. The vehicleis based on SS-18 missile. The Tsiklon upper stage has been proposed for use with Dniepr.