The first launch of the Soyuz-5 rocket was postponed by a year - Kommersant
The first launch of the Russian promising Soyuz-5 launch vehicle is planned for 2026, said Ravil Akhmetov, first deputy general director of the Progress rocket and space center. It was assumed that Soyuz-5 would be launched in 2025.
“Soyuz-5 is at the development stage. The first launch is expected to take place in 2026,” Mr. Akhmetov told reporters (quoted from TASS).
He also said that within three months it is planned to carry out five more launches of Soyuz rockets. They are planned from the Plesetsk, Baikonur and Vostochny cosmodromes.
The Soyuz-5 launch vehicle (Irtysh) is a Russian two-stage semi-heavy class launch vehicle. It is capable of delivering up to 17 tons of payload into low-Earth orbit. Her must equip engine with a thrust of about 800 tons - RD-171MV (“Tsar Engine”).
It was originally planned that Soyuz-5 would be launched in 2023. That year in Progress they saidthat the launch vehicle will be ready for launch at the end of 2025.
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