Moscow. February 2. INTERFAX - Roscosmos has decided on a test schedule for the promising Eagle spacecraft, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin said.
"In the morning, RSC Energia finally decided on the sequence of tests of the safety system of the new manned Eagle spacecraft at the Vostochny cosmodrome, starting with the testing of the emergency rescue rocket unit," Rogozin wrote in his telegram channel.
According to the state corporation, it is expected that the tests will begin in 2023 with the testing of the emergency rescue system at the launch complex - with the shooting, withdrawal and landing of the ship in a safe area.
"Then the ship's rescue system will be tested during launch on a launch vehicle. There are also four resets of the ship's return vehicle from a helicopter to test the landing system," the report says.
On December 31, 2021, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, announced that during the first test launch of the Angara manned launch vehicle from the Vostochny cosmodrome in December 2023, a mock-up of the new Eagle spacecraft, and not its finished version, would be used as a payload.
"Therefore, we will work out, first of all, in December 2023, a bundle - the new launch complex of the Vostochny cosmodrome, the Angara rocket, respectively, and we will work out the entire interface with the ship, which will have the necessary amount of equipment. But it will not be a full-time ship yet, because, once again, the risk is too high," Rogozin explained.
According to him, after this launch, the emergency rescue system of the ship should be tested at Vostochny. This system should "rip" the ship from the rocket standing at the launch and take it to a safe place and gently land it. It is also planned to test the "shooting" of the ship during the flight of the Angara rocket.
On October 4, the general designer of the rocket and space corporation Energia, Vladimir Solovyov, announced that the launch of the new Russian manned spacecraft Eagle could be postponed.
The Eagle spacecraft can be part of a complex for flights to other planets or asteroids, Igor Khamits, the chief designer of the spacecraft, said earlier.
