A minute and a half before the start, an automation team was formed to end the start
MOSCOW, December 24. /tass/. The launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle, scheduled earlier on Friday, was postponed due to a malfunction in the ground complex one and a half minutes before launch. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.
"A minute and a half before the start of the Angara, an automation team was formed to end the launch," the agency interlocutor said.
Earlier, two sources in the rocket and space industry told TASS that the launch of the Angara heavy launch vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region was postponed to a reserve date - December 24.
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.
