According to the head of the state corporation, the work was carried out together with the redesign of the complex
MOSCOW, February 2. /tass/. Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, said that the state corporation had a very difficult time entering into the project of building a launch complex for the Angara launch vehicle at the Vostochny cosmodrome.
"It was very difficult to enter into this project. Frankly speaking. But it is predictably difficult, because what the previous administration of Roscosmos offered us to build is not that, because they offered to build the same launch complex as in Plesetsk, and we needed to do it with a margin of safety," Rogozin said in the General Line program published on Roscosmos Twitter.
According to the head of the state corporation, the work was carried out together with the redesign of the complex. In 2022, it is planned to complete the construction of the second stage of the cosmodrome, in 2023, tests and the first launch from the new launch complex will take place. "And then it will go along the beaten path, because people will get used to their city, social infrastructure will grow here. There will be everything you need for the technical intelligentsia. Libraries, good schools, theater, sports infrastructure. People will be drawn here. The most interesting job in the world is space work," he added.
As Rogozin clarified, the Angara light launch vehicle will be launched from the same launch complex, the ultralight rocket from a separate one. "Then the Amur-LNG launch complex will appear after we get methane engines. This is another stage of the construction of the cosmodrome, because finally there will be a superheavy class rocket, which is why I say that the cosmodrome will develop forever," concluded the General director of Roscosmos.
Vostochny is the first Russian civilian cosmodrome. It is located in the Amur region near Tsiolkovsky (the city arose in 2015 on the site of the former village of Uglegorsk). The decree on the creation of the cosmodrome was signed by the President of the Russian Federation in 2007. As part of the first stage of construction in 2012-2016, a universal launch complex for Soyuz-2 series launch vehicles was built here. The second stage of the construction of the cosmodrome involves the construction of a launch pad for Angara-A5 launch vehicles and related infrastructure. It is assumed that the construction of the second stage will be completed at the end of 2022, and the first launch will take place at the end of 2023.
