Russia To Develop First Reusable Stage For Carrier Rocket By 2023 - FPI

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th September, 2018) A fully-functioning prototype of the return stage of a reusable launch vehicle will be built in Russia within the next four years, an official from Russia's Advanced Research Foundation (FPI) told Sputnik.

"As for the whole project, we are counting on four years from the start of the fully-fledged work...According to our estimates, the work will begin in the first half of next year," the official said.

He clarified that the project to create a reusable stage was dubbed "Wing-SR" (stage reusable).