The first Angara-A5 launch vehicle will be sent from Vostochny on April 6-10
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The Angara-A5 launch vehicle will be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome between April 6 and 10, reported “Roscosmos”. The launch is planned to be carried out with the Orion upper stage and payload. The rocket has already been transported to the launch complex, the state corporation noted.
“With the help of a transport and installation unit, the rocket was delivered from the installation and testing building and installed at the launch complex of site 1A,” the message says.
It notes that the decision to remove and continue comprehensive tests of Angara-A5 at the launch complex was made after successful tests at the technical site of the cosmodrome.
“Angara” is a family of Russian modular launch vehicles with various payload capacities. They are created on the basis of universal rocket modules with oxygen-kerosene engines. The family includes the Angara-1.2 launch vehicles (light payload, from 3.5 tons) and Angara-A5V (up to 38 tons).
The first launch of Angara-A5 was planned for December 2023, but was later postponed to the first quarter of 2024. In January, the head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, stated that work on creating a launch complex for the Angara launch vehicle on Vostochny would be completed this year.
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