The launch is scheduled for 18:00 Moscow time on December 23
MOSCOW, December 13. /tass/. The removal of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle to the launch pad of the Plesetsk cosmodrome is scheduled for December 17. This was reported to TASS by two sources in the rocket and space industry.
"The Angara-A5 launch vehicle will be taken to the launch pad of the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region on December 17," the agency interlocutor noted. A second source confirmed this information.
On Thursday, the administration of the Kargasoksky district of the Tomsk region announced that the launch of the Angara-A5 launch vehicle is scheduled for 18:00 Moscow time on December 23. The reserve date is December 24, 2021.
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.
