Russia began to develop extra-heavy rocket for missions to the Moon and Mars. Create a launcher approved by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said the launch of the rocket design capacity of up to 150 tons. “Today we can say that the President gave preliminary good at the beginning of this work. This means that after the development of the entire family of launch vehicles” Angara “light, medium and heavy classes we go by the launch vehicle an entirely new class – or seven, or 15, or 25 tons of payload, and 120-150 tons of payload, “- said the politician.
Rogozin stressed that now need to start work on the creation of the launch complex for extra heavy rocket even though the project has not yet been prepared and approved by the president and the government, but “without the rocket can not do.” “We need to turn after 2020 have to go here to create such a complex” – quoted by RIA Novosti it. Deputy Prime Minister added that this “return to the best that was in the Soviet experience”. “Today the President through the discussion questions at the Baikonur supported this kind of an idea that is already associated with the federal space program perspective. This one of the fundamental decisions today, “- he said.
The project will be implemented in two phases: the first – the rocket with a payload of 70 to 80 tons, at the following stages – from 120 to 190 tons. Applications for the establishment of the project submitted RSC “Energia”, the Khrunichev Center and Central Design Bureau “Progress”. Missiles of this class can output devices beyond low Earth orbit. Plans to create a launch vehicle for the lunar and Martian programs in June of this year, said the head of Roscosmos Oleg Ostapenko, focusing on the fact that we are not talking about the modernization of the launch vehicle “Angara”, and a completely new rocket “to fly to Mars, the Moon, asteroids and build a manned lunar base “.
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