The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, clarified that the next launch of the Soyuz-5 will be in 2024 with an upper stage
MOSCOW, January 25. /tass/. The first payload of the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle will be the Stork satellite. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday.
"We plan that we will take a risk and go to launch during the first launch of the Soyuz-5 rocket <...> of the Stork satellite. Not two, but we will definitely launch one, so we will not have idle launches," Rogozin said during the plenary session of the XLVI Academic Readings on Cosmonautics in memory of S. P. Korolev (Royal Readings).
The head of Roscosmos clarified that the next launch of the Soyuz-5 will be in 2024 with an upper stage.
The carrier is being developed for the Russian-Kazakh project "Baiterek". In 2018, a protocol was signed on amendments to the agreement of the governments of Kazakhstan and Russia on the creation of the Baiterek complex on Baikonur dated December 22, 2004. It defines the obligations of the parties under the project, the withdrawal from lease and the transfer to the Kazakh side of the objects of the ground-based space infrastructure of the Zenit-M complex for modernization.
Kazakhstan is responsible for the creation of ground infrastructure through the modernization of the Zenit-M KRK. Russia is developing a Soyuz-5 launch vehicle, which is planned to be launched from there. The first launch is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023. The launch complex will be named "Nazarbayev Start".
