The "Polet" production association will maximize its capacity and produce up to eight Angara-A5 heavy carrier rockets per year. This was announced by the head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, during a visit to this Omsk enterprise and a tour of the workshop for the manufacture and testing of Angara rockets.
Borisov thanked the company's staff for their work and noted that "Polet" has an "optimistic future", as its workshops are developing the "main carrier" under an order from the Ministry of Defense. And its capacity will grow.
Maximum production capacity is about eight Angara-A5 heavy rockets plus Angara-1.2 light rockets - this is a very serious volume of commercial products. I think that in the near future, a year or eighteen months, we will complete the reconstruction and reach maximum design capacity.
The Angara-A5 is preparing for its first launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome - it is known that the launch is scheduled for the first ten days of April. This will be the first launch of a heavy launch vehicle from this cosmodrome in its history. After checking the operability of the technological systems and the complex, specialists carry out autonomous checks of the components of the carrier and other planned work.
Angara is a Russian three-stage launch vehicle developed by the M.V. Khrunichev Center, which is part of Roscosmos. The rocket is 55 meters long and almost 9 m in diameter. The launch mass is 773 tons. Depending on the orbit, Angara can put from 24 to 2.8 tons of payload into orbit. It will be launched with five universal rocket modules, which are equipped with RD-191 engines (four modules on the first stage and one on the second). Instead of kerosene, this family of rockets uses naphthyl as fuel.
Flight tests of Russian Angara-A5 rockets are scheduled to be completed this year.