This year, Russia will finish manufacturing the latest Proton-M heavy-class missiles. The Angara-A5M rocket is being created to replace it.
Russia is completing the production of the famous Proton-M heavy-class launch vehicle. This was announced today in Roscosmos.
Now Russian specialists are manufacturing the last four carriers of this type. The work will be completed this year. In addition, ten Protons-M are stored at the site of the Khrunichev Center and at Baikonur.
Protons will be launched from the territory of the cosmodrome for another four years, after which they will be replaced by the Angara-A5M carrier rocket - an upgraded version of the Angara—A5 heavy class. Its first launch will be held in 2024.
In Russia today, another version of the heavy "Angara" is being created — "Angara-A5B". It is assumed that this carrier, when launched from Plesetsk and Vostochny, will be able to put up to 38 tons of cargo into a low reference orbit.
As previously stated in Roscosmos, this should be enough to solve all the tasks facing the Russian cosmonautics until 2032. Recall that recently it became known about the protection of the draft design of an oxygen-hydrogen engine designed for the third stage of the Angara-A5V.
