According to the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, this will give additional energy and other operational advantages.
VOSTOCHNY COSMODROME /Amur Region/, October 14. /tass/. Work on the transition of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region to the new naphthyl fuel will begin on Friday. This decision was made during a meeting of the State Commission on Thursday, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin told reporters.
"At the [meeting] The State Commission noted the need to start work on the transition of the Vostochny cosmodrome to the use of new fuel - from kerosene to naphthyl - literally from tomorrow, which will give additional energy and other operational advantages. We are now quietly completing the work before the New Year. This is due to ensuring all kinds of safety measures for starters and technologists when working with the fuel system, and from next year we will enter rhythmic launches," Rogozin said.
He noted that there will be no launches from the Vostochny cosmodrome until the end of the year. Since the beginning of the year, five Soyuz-2.1b rockets have been launched from Vostochny - on March 25, April 26, May 28, July 1 and October 14.
"The mission ended successfully, work is currently underway with the upper stage - it is being brought down from orbit, an impulse is needed for its regular flooding in the Pacific Ocean zone. The work has been completed to date, the work has been completed here on the East," Rogozin said.
The Soyuz-2.1b rocket with 36 British OneWeb communications satellites launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome at 12:40 Moscow time on Thursday. As a result, the number of spacecraft of the British company in orbit will increase to 358.
Vostochny is the first Russian civilian cosmodrome, it is located in the Amur region near Tsiolkovsky (the city appeared in 2015 on the site of the former village of Uglegorsk). The decree on the creation of the cosmodrome was signed by the President of the Russian Federation in 2007. As part of the first stage of construction in 2012-2016, a universal launch complex for Soyuz-2 series launch vehicles was built here. The second stage of the construction of the cosmodrome involves the construction of a launch pad for Angara-A5 launch vehicles and related infrastructure. It is assumed that the construction of the second stage will be completed at the end of 2022.
