Moscow. December 20. INTERFAX - Omsk plant "Polet" will be able to produce 4-6 launch vehicles of the "Angara" family per year after the modernization of the production site, said the head of the Khrunichev Center Alexey Varochko.
"At the Omsk site, all production is focused today in such a way that in 2020-2022 we will conduct an all-time increase in the production of cars. Now the possibilities of the Omsk site are to produce two cars per year as much as possible. Starting from 2021-2022, we will switch to 3-4 cars a year and after the completion of the investment project, this is the end of 2023, this is 4-6 cars, "he said on the air of the program" Military Acceptance "on the TV channel"Zvezda".
In October 2019, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, reported that from 2024 it is planned to produce eight heavy and two light Angara missiles per year in Omsk.
"From 2023, we assume that we will produce at least four Angara missiles in Omsk and fully transfer the production of Angara there. From 2024, we will produce eight heavy Angara missiles in Omsk and two light missiles, " Rogozin said.
On December 14, the second test launch of the Angara-A5 heavy rocket took place at the Plesetsk cosmodrome. The first launch took place in December 2014. According to Rogozin, " the missile has demonstrated that it meets the stated characteristics."
in may 2019, it was reported that in 2019-2021, the ministry of defense will conduct three launches of the angara-a5 launch vehicle and one-angara 1.2. however, the launch of 2019 was later postponed to 2020.
As the general director of Glavkosmos, Dmitry Loskutov, reported in October, commercial launches may be included in the missile test program.
The main customer of the missile family is the Ministry of Defense. At the Vostochny cosmodrome, the construction of second-stage facilities designed to launch family rockets is underway. The first launch of " Angara "from the cosmodrome is scheduled for 2023, in the same year, a rocket with a promising manned spacecraft"Eagle" should launch from it.
At the same time, the state corporation is dissatisfied with the cost of producing launch vehicles. As noted in Roscosmos, the cost of one rocket manufactured for flight tests is approaching 5 billion rubles.
"We can agree with this cost only at the testing stage. We need a price at which we can compete with our most successful, primarily American, competitors," Rogozin said.
It is planned that after the start of mass production, the cost of the rocket will significantly decrease.
Angara is a family of the latest Russian launch vehicles of modular type with various payload capacities, created on the basis of universal rocket modules (URM) with oxygen-kerosene engines. The family includes launch vehicles from light to heavy classes in the range of load capacities from 3.5 tons ("Angara-1.2.") to 38 tons ("Angara-A5B") in low Earth orbit.