The next launch rocket “Angara-5″ is scheduled for 2016 – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, February 25 – RIA Novosti. The next launch heavy rocket “Angara-5″ is scheduled for 2016, the missile itself will be ready in 2015, said, answering a question RIA Novosti, Head of the Khrunichev Andrew Kalinowski.

“This year, the missile will be ready with a launch planned for 2016,” – he said.

Heavy “Angara” is able to withdraw from the territory of Russia payload into geostationary orbit. It is designed to replace in the long term is used for these purposes, the carrier rocket “Proton” that runs from “Baikonur”.

launch vehicle “Angara” are environmentally friendly, as their engines operate on kerosene and oxygen without the use of highly toxic heptyl. The whole family, designed in a modular type, includes four classes of rockets (mild to severe) with capacity from 3.8 tons (“Angara-1.2″, was test-fired in July) to 35 tons (“Angara-A7″ launch date yet not defined) to launch from the Baikonur “Plesetsk”, and in the future – with the “East”.