The universal Orlyonok spacecraft, which will replace Progress in the cargo version and Soyuz in the manned version, may appear in 2026-2027, RIA Novosti reports a statement by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin.
"I mean the creation [at the turn of 2026-2027] of a universal ship in a cargo and manned version," the head of the state corporation said.
According to TASS, the frequency of flights to the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS) being developed will be higher than currently to the operating International Space Station (ISS), which is why the Eaglet "should be cheap." According to Rogozin, the Rocket and Space Corporation RSC Energia "will definitely prescribe not only the architecture of ROSS, but also how to fly there."
In October, Rogozin announced that in 2023, flight tests of the Russian promising lunar spacecraft Eagle will be conducted on a heavy Angara rocket from the Vostochny cosmodrome, which "can be stretched in accordance with a more rational schedule."
In December 2019, it was reported that the promising Eagle, formerly known as the Federation, turned out to be overloaded, as a result of which the aircraft launched by the heavy rocket of the Angara family would not reach the Moon.
Ivan Potapov
