Heavy rocket “Angara-A5” today, on Monday, December 14, launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, reports . Prior to that, this medium started only once – in December 2014. p >
During the second test launch of Angara-A5 in six years, it is planned to put 2.4 tons of cargo into geostationary orbit, presumably not useful .
In November, TASS , referring to a source in the rocket and space industry, said that already the rocket taken to the launch pad “revealed an underestimated insulation resistance between the second and third blocks”, as a result of which the carrier was removed from the site, and the launch was postponed to December.
In the same month, the chief designer of the Angara complex Dmitry Petrov said that heavy carriers of the first and second flight tests are structurally no different from each other.
In October, the CEO Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin reported that the first flight test of Angara-A5, conducted in December 2014″ did not confirm the customer’s requirements”, because “the mass output was lower than necessary”.
In August, the manager during the report to the Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov on the forum Army 2020 promised that the missile would launch in November.
In July, the former CEO, ex-designer Khrunichev Center a > Vladimir Nesterov explained the reasons for the high cost of Angara-A5. “Wages, electricity, gas, heat, overhead costs, transportation services need to be written somewhere. And when a three-time manufacturing cycle is hung on one product, naturally, its price triples,” said the former head.
The financial report of the Khrunichev Center for 2019 it was reported that the cost of production “Angara-A5” is seven billion rubles, which is three times more expensive than the “Proton-M” rocket, which it will replace.
In May 2019, according to the SPARK-Marketing system it became known a> that the Angara-1.2 light rocket is one and a half times more expensive than the average Soyuz-2.1a and Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicles.