CEO Rogozin: Roscosmos will launch at least two Angara light rockets in 2022
Roscosmos will launch at least two Angara light missiles in 2022, said Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of the state corporation. The manager's statement is transmitted by TASS .
"As you know, the test launches of Angara are already in full swing. Another launch was carried out in December. This year we will launch at least two Angara light rockets," the CEO said, visiting the National Space Center (NCC) under construction on the site of the Khrunichev Center in Moscow.
Rogozin added that the state corporation hopes for a synergetic effect from the interaction of university students, whose departments are planned to be located in the NCC, with the engineers of the design bureaus of Roscosmos, who will be located there.
In December 2021 source RIA Novosti He said that in 2022 the Russian Defense Ministry plans to launch three Angara missiles from Plesetsk – two heavy (Angara-A5) and one light (Angara-1.2). In October 2021, the commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia, Sergei Surovikin, claimed that in 2022 it was planned to launch four Angara rockets from the Plesetsk cosmodrome — two light and two heavy.
The only time the light "Angara" started in July 2014.
