Russia will use extensively the new Angara...
The family of Angara rockets will complement, and eventually replace, the existing line of Rockot and Proton launch vehicles. It will be available in a range of configurations capable of lifting between from 2 to 24.5 metric tons into low-earth orbit, and its developers say it will have a low environment impact.
"In the future, light and heavy class Angara carrier rockets will form the core of the Russian fleet of delivery vehicles together with the medium class Soyuz-2 rockets. They will be used extensively to launch military satellites into orbit," Maj. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko said.
The Angara is intended mainly for launch from the Plesetsk space center to reduce Moscow"s dependence on Kazakhstan"s Baikonur, the main launch facility for the current generation of Russian rockets.
Meanwhile, Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, said last November that the maiden launch of the Angara carrier rocket could be postponed for at least one year
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