General Director Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Twitter named the timing of the next launches of the Angara missiles.
“Two launches next year,” said the manager.
The manager did not specify which class of media will run in each case.
The second test launch of the Angara-A5 heavy missile in six years took place a > December 14.
The first start of the heavy “Angara-A5” passed December 23, 2014 .
The first and only time the light Angara-A1.2 flew on July 9 of the same year.
Missiles of the Angara family are being developed and manufactured Khrunichev Center a > – Roscosmos’ most problematic and unprofitable enterprise. One of the company’s failed projects is the development of the Angara family of launch vehicles, which in the heavy version should replace the Proton-M. The creation of missiles has been going on for more than a quarter of a century and required more than three billion dollars (according to other estimates, more than five). Currently, the debts of the Khrunichev Center exceed 80 billion rubles, which is equivalent to half of the annual budget of the state corporation.