The company intends to test rocket tanks of a reduced size, said Arseniy Kisarev, director of the Department of Technological Development of S7 Space
MOSCOW, January 11. /tass/. The S7 Space company plans to test the tanks of the space launch vehicle under development in a third-party laboratory in 2022. This was reported to TASS by Arseniy Kisarev, director of the company's technological development department.
"We plan to test parts of the rocket - rocket tanks of a reduced size, with a diameter of 1.5 meters. Tests should show the strength of the structure. A specific laboratory for these tests has not yet been selected, that is, there is no contract for testing at the moment," Kisarev said.
He also expressed hope that the tests will take place at the test stand of the head scientific institute of Roscosmos TsNIIMash. "However, it can also be a stand in another laboratory if it meets our requirements for the test procedure," Kisarev said.
Earlier, in an interview published on the Rosmould YouTube channel, Kisarev said that it is planned to finish the work in 2022.
In September 2020, the S7 Development Center announced that in 2019 it had begun to create a light-class launch vehicle (LV) with a returnable stage. Then it was clarified that it would be a light launch vehicle with the prospect of using developments in the industrial manufacture of a medium-class launch vehicle for launching from the Sea Launch cosmodrome.
To manage the project, S7 Group created its subsidiary in Moscow in 2016 - the company S7 Space (LLC "S7 Space Transport Systems"). On February 15, 2017, the company received a license to carry out space activities (issued by Roscosmos, on November 30, 2018, it was reissued in perpetuity), in 2018 - a license for the development and modernization of launch vehicles and other launch vehicles, their components and components.
