Sunday, August 23, 2015

“Izvestia”: a manned flight to the Baikonur East will take place no earlier than 2025 – BBC

Roscosmos postpones manned flight from Baikonur East from 2018 to 2025, writes «News» , citing data from the draft federal space program for the period 2016 to 2025.

The space agency claim that run from the Baikonur outdated “Union” does not make sense, and the carrier rocket “Angara-A5V” is not ready yet. In addition, for 2025 it is planned only the first launches of flight test samples interorbital tugs (dispersal units).

It was supposed to start in 2018 rocket “Rus-M” with the new ship, but development was discontinued.

The Russian Space Agency said that the presidential decree on the manned launch from Baikonur in 2018 have not yet canceled.

«At the same time we have a suggestion was made not to engage in the creation of infrastructure for manned missions to the” East “under the rockets” Soyuz “and build everything you need for manned missions have with the new spacecraft and prospective carrier “Angara-A5V” – the official representative of the Russian Space Agency Igor Bourenkov.

Previous reported that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposed to reflect on the commercial launches from the Baikonur East.

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