The backup launch date was set for December 24
MOSCOW, December 9. /tass/. The launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome is scheduled for the evening of December 23. This is stated in the message of the administration of the Kargasok district of the Tomsk region.
"It is planned to launch the Angara-A5 space rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk region). The launch time is December 23, 2021 at 18:00 Moscow time (the reserve launch date is December 24, 2021)," the message posted on the district's page on the VKontakte social network says.
As specified in the message, the area of the fall of the separating parts of the launch vehicles is partially located on the territory of the Kargasoksky, Parabelsky, Kolpashevsky and Verkhneketsky districts of the Tomsk region.
Fragments of the second stage are expected to fall on the specified territory. The district administration urged the population not to visit the area of the fall at the specified time.
"We kindly ask you to inform the Department of Protection of the Population and Territory of the Tomsk Region in case of detection of fragments of the launch vehicle," they stressed.
Angara is a family of Russian launch vehicles. Universal rocket blocks "Angara" are manufactured at the Omsk PO "Flight" (part of the M. V. Khrunichev Center of the state Corporation "Roscosmos"). The first two launches of the heavy "Angara" took place on December 23, 2014 and December 14, 2020 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.
