Now it is scheduled for December 24
MOSCOW, December 21. /tass/. The launch of the Angara heavy launch vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region has been postponed to a reserve date - December 24. This was reported to TASS by two sources in the rocket and space industry.
"The launch of Angara has been postponed for a day. Now it is scheduled for December 24," the agency interlocutor noted. The second source confirmed the information.
"The launch of the Angara-A5 launch vehicle has been postponed for a day due to problems with ground equipment, as well as due to weather conditions," one of the agency's interlocutors said.
In December, the administration of the Kargasoksky district of the Tomsk region announced that the launch of the Angara-A5 launch vehicle was 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.