Lightweight version of the "Angara" - A1 Bashny.Net

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November 1 guide Khrunichev. Khrunichev reported to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, that the new heavy launch vehicle "Angara A5" - the world's first rocket, made in a modular fashion (formed as a designer) has passed a comprehensive diagnosis and completely ready to start from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.





Lightweight version of the "Angara" - A1 (1 module, load capacity of 1, 5 tons) in June this year has successfully passed the test, now go to the launch pad rocket 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 that if the project is implemented in the approved time, he firstly, significantly reduce the cost, simplify and speed up the entire space program Roscosmos and the Defense Ministry, and secondly, in the future will be able to redraw the entire global space launch market, because it is not will be equal to the cost of delivery of cargo units on any of the sought-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 is 7, 5 billion, the budget of the European Space Agency on Ariane exceeded 3, 2 billion euros, the total investment planned in the 5 to 8 billion euros. "Angara" same cost the Russian budget to 96 billion rubles, ie, even at the old rate is 3, $ 2 billion. Minimum price for a kilogram of payload for "Falcon" is 4000 dollars per kilogram to LEO and 9, 5000 for the GTO. Other space projects even consider not worth it, because the European missile loses US 12%, which is publicly proud head of SpaceX, and the Chinese "heavy" missile rocket CZ-11 exists only in words. Shipping cost of 1 kg with "Angara" is only 2, 4 thousand dollars to the DOE and 4, 6000 to GAP. Experts believe that at least a ten-year period - from 2018, when the new carrier rocket will be launched in the series, and up until 2027 it will be the absolute leader in the market space with the truck is not within the reach of low-cost competitors services.

What is even more valuable - Designer "Angara" on basic technology involves the use of it, and in manned version that does can be called breakthroughs in world space. Manned spacecraft ever designed as separate projects for very different, is not compatible with trucks standards. Roskosmos plans in 2018 to begin the practical implementation of rocket launches with a team of astronauts, as compared with the "union", which last decades perform this function, delivery and return of people 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 - to Mars. True, it is not yet approved plans and technical perspectives, kotoroye already built into the project. "Today, it is ready for Plesetsk as truck, but now given instructions and considering the issue of what to" East "will solve tasks and manned launch. Because all of this is. There are procedures related to the fact that the necessary flight proficiency, responsibility is much higher, so there is a procedure by which the rocket gets flight qualification for manned launches. And the first - it should run in for a cargo version, "- said Nikolai Moiseyev.

Sergey Tikhonov