The Soyuz-5 launch vehicle is being developed for the Russian-Kazakh Baiterek project
MOSCOW, February 4. /tass/. N. A. Semikhatov NPO of Automation plans in 2022 to test models of the control system, which is designed for the promising Soyuz-5 rocket. This was announced by the general director of the company Andrey Misyura.
"We are making mockups so that next year (meaning 2022, the interview was recorded last year - approx. TASS) to carry out the production and testing of models, and only then prototypes," Misyura said on Roscosmos TV.
According to the general director, last year the NPO Automatiki also started work on the topic of "Amur-LNG": the company will create a rocket control system.
The Soyuz-5 launch vehicle is being developed for the Russian-Kazakh Baiterek project. 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 complex. Russia is developing a Soyuz-5 rocket, 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".
