After the examination is completed, the project will be submitted to Roscosmos for approval
MOSCOW, December 10. /tass/. The preliminary design of the promising Russian Soyuz-5 launch vehicle has been developed. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC).
"The preliminary design has been developed and is currently undergoing examination," the press service said.
According to the company, after the completion of the examination, the draft design will be submitted to Roscosmos for approval. The coordination of work on its delivery is carried out by the main organization - the executor of the work on the experimental design work "Phoenix" - Rocket and Space Corporation "Energia".
The Soyuz-5 launch vehicle is being developed for the Russian-Kazakh Baiterek project. In 2018, a protocol was signed on amendments to the agreement of the governments of Kazakhstan and Russia on the creation of the Baiterek complex on Baikonur dated December 22, 2004. It defines the obligations of the parties under the project, the withdrawal from lease and the transfer to the Kazakh side of the objects of the ground-based space infrastructure of the Zenit-M complex for modernization.
Kazakhstan is responsible for the creation of ground infrastructure through the modernization of the Zenit-M KRK. Russia is developing a Soyuz-5 launch vehicle, which is planned to be launched from there. The first launch is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023. The launch complex will be named "Nazarbayev Start".
