Roscosmos expects that at least two launches of Angara light launch vehicles will be carried out in 2022
MOSCOW, February 26. /tass/. Roscosmos is working on the possibility of launching a light version of the Angara rocket with a commercial load from the Vostochny cosmodrome in December 2023. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in an interview with the magazine "Russian Space".
"Now we are also working on the possibility of another launch of the Angara from the East - its light version of the Angara-1.2"with a commercial load - in December 2023," Rogozin said.
As previously reported, Roscosmos expects that at least two launches of Angara light launch vehicles will be carried out in 2022. At the end of 2023, the launch of a heavy carrier rocket "Angara" with a model of a promising manned spacecraft "Eagle" without astronauts on board and without docking with the ISS is planned from Vostochny.
Angara is a family of Russian launch vehicles. Universal rocket blocks "Angara" are manufactured at the Omsk PO "Flight" (part of the M. V. Khrunichev Center of the state Corporation "Roscosmos"). The launches of the heavy "Angara" took place on December 23, 2014, December 14, 2020 and December 27, 2021 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. Light "Angara-1.2" was launched on July 9, 2014.
