Dmitry Rogozin announced the postponement of the testing of the Eagle spacecraft to 2024
The launch of the Russian spacecraft "Eagle" has been postponed from 2023 to 2024, Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, said in an interview with the Russian Cosmos magazine.
According to the manager, approximately in the summer of 2023, a heavy Angara-A5 rocket will be delivered to the Vostochny cosmodrome. "With its help, as part of the flight tests of the Eagle spacecraft in 2024, we will conduct the next stage of testing: shooting the ship with an emergency rescue unit at the stage of operation of the first stage of the Angara-A5 rocket at an altitude of 10-15 kilometers at maximum speed pressure," the head said.
Rogozin clarified that this test will allow to work out soft landing systems and "test the launch complex, the interfaces of interaction between the ship and the third stage of the Angara-A5, to understand the nuances associated with the fields of fall of the separable parts and stages of the rocket."
Subsequently, the Eagle tests are planned to continue on the Angara-A5M rocket, which differs from the Angara-A5 with a more powerful RD-191M engine and a lightweight design. "In April 2024, a flight copy of the ship will appear for testing, first in unmanned mode, and then in manned mode," the head of the state corporation said.
In February, in the "White Paper" of high Technologies posted on the website of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia (MAYOR), it was reported that a number of modern foreign missiles surpass the new carriers that Roscosmos has, for example, in the use of reusable technologies that reduce the cost of services.
