The Production Corporation Polyot, located in the Russian city of Omsk, will be able to start serial production of light-class Angara rockets in 2019 and of heavy-class Angara rockets in 2023, the rocket's manufacturer Khrunichev center said in a statement on Thursday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 28th December, 2018) The Production Corporation Polyot, located in the Russian city of Omsk, will be able to start serial production of light-class Angara rockets in 2019 and of heavy-class Angara rockets in 2023, the rocket's manufacturer Khrunichev center said in a statement on Thursday."The Khrunichev center must develop the whole circle of production of the light-class Angara-1.2 class rocket in 2019, while the serial production of the heavy-class Angara-A5 rocket [will be launched] in 2023," the statement said.
Earlier in the day, Polyot was attended by head of the Roscosmos space corporation Dmitry Rogozin, who inspected the plant's workshops.
The Angara family of space launch vehicles is designed to provide lifting capabilities of between 2 and 40.5 tonnes into the low Earth orbit. It has been in development since 1995 and was the first orbit-capable rocket developed by Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union to replace the older Proton-M rockets.
