Vladimir Putin congratulated the designers and engineers have developed a new launch vehicle “Angara”, with its successful launch. Russian leader stressed that for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union has been developed from scratch a powerful missile capable to orbit loads from 1.5 to 35 tons.
Eco booster “Angara” was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in July 9, 2014. The test flight lasted about 21 minutes and took place in accordance with the approved cyclogram ballistic over the territory of Russia. Second stage with non-detachable gruzomaketom landed as planned in a given area on the ground on the Kamchatka Peninsula (about 6000 km from the starting point). This was reported to Vladimir Putin, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.
Note that the “Angara” had yet to make a flight on June 27, but due to technical problems in seconds before the start of the automatic control system abolished start. The next day, the launch was also canceled due to technical problems – depressurization valve drainage tank of liquid oxygen. Eliminating these problems took about a week.
The plans of Russian engineers and designers who worked on the clean light rocket “Angara”, to start production of such a device in the heavyweight class. The need to create environmentally friendly heavy rockets stressed member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after Tsiolkovsky Andrew, son of John. He also noted that the launch of “Angara” – a great success, which showed efficiency and professionalism of designers, engineers and other professionals who worked on the building and launching rockets.
Feature missiles is that the work she uses non-toxic fuel (kerosene and oxygen).
”Angara” is a new generation of Russian rockets. It was developed based on two universal rocket module (URM) with oxygen-kerosene engines: URM-1 and URM-2. It is planned to create a different load capacity (from 3.8 to 35 tons) varieties “Angara”. Complex new rockets will be able to display virtually the entire spectrum of promising payloads in the Defense Ministry and Roscosmos.
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