MOSCOW, May 23 – RIA Novosti. Heavy spacecraft “Angara” will go to the cosmodrome “Plesetsk” for test runs on the night of May 28, said Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Military-Industrial Commission Dmitry Rogozin during a visit to the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI).
“” Angara “ship to” Plesetsk “on the night of 27 to 28 May,” – said Rogozin, specifying the terms of its dispatch. Earlier, at a meeting with students of Moscow State University, he said only that “Angara” at the end of May will be immersed in a train and sent to the Plesetsk.
Rogozin also said that under the “Angara” will target the second launch pad cosmodrome “East”.
Earlier Deputy Defense Yuri Borisov reported that the launch of light “Angara” is scheduled for mid-2014, and heavy missiles of this class – at the end of 2014. Until then called each time launch: easy “Angara” – in October 2013, severe – in the middle of 2014. The head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin later explained that the reason for the transfer was not ready start the launch pad, and the missiles are ready.
General Designer of “Salute” Yuri Bahvalov reported that the rocket will be launched from the Plesetsk space center as well as a newly constructed East cosmodrome in the Amur region.
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