Rocket "Angara"

Easy option "Angara" - A1 (1 module, load capacity of 1, 5 tons) in June this year has been successfully tested, now go to the launch pad rocket out of 5 modules with a payload of 25, 8 tons (orbit 200 km.), And Next start on the test cycle are expected to become the A7 with a cargo of 35 tons and 50 tons with A7.2V. Experts note: if the project will be implemented in the approved time, he firstly, significantly reduce the cost, simplify and speed up the entire space program Roscosmos and the Ministry of Defense, and secondly, in the future will be able to reshape the entire world space launch market, because it does not will be equal to the cost of a unit of cargo delivery to any of the most popular orbits.





In terms of investment, "Angara" furnish all its competitors. On the program Falcon-9 American company has spent more than 5, $ 2 billion, the total amount of the project reaches 7, 5 billion, the budget of the European Space Agency Ariane exceeded 3, 2 billion euros, the total investment planned for 5 to 8 billion euros. "Angara" also cost the Russian budget of 96 billion rubles, ie even at the old rate is 3, $ 2 billion. The minimum price for a kilogram payload "Falcon" is 4000 dollars per kilogram for the DOE and 9, 5000 for the GPO. Other space projects even consider not worth it, because the European missile loses US by 12%, which is publicly proud head of SpaceX, a Chinese "heavy" missile rocket CZ-11 exists only in words. Shipping cost 1 kg "Angara" is only 2, 4 thousand dollars to the DOE and 4, 6000 to the GPO. Experts believe that at least a ten-year period - from 2018, when the new carrier rocket will be launched in a series, and up until 2027 it will be the absolute market leader in trucks with no space within reach for low-cost services to competitors.
What is even more valuable - Designer "Angara" on basic technologies involves the use of it and in the manned version that does can be called a breakthrough in world space. Manned spacecraft ever designed as separate projects for very different, is not compatible with the trucks, standards. Roscosmos plans in 2018 to begin the practical implementation of rocket launches with a team of astronauts, compared with the "union" that recent decades perform this function, delivery and return humans to the ISS will become cheaper by 25-30%, which is about $ 10 million for each " a pass. " In 2019, "Angara" should go to the moon, and in 2022 - on Mars. However, this has not yet approved plans, and technical perspectives, kotoroye already built into the project. "Today he was preparing for Plesetsk like a truck, but now given instructions and worked out the question of what to" East "will be pursued and a manned launch. Because all for it. There is a procedure related to the fact that we need a flight qualification, responsibility is much higher, so there is a procedure in which the missile receives flight qualification for manned launches. And the first - it should run in for a cargo version, "- said Nikolay Moiseev.

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Source: expert.ru

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