The state corporation Roskosmos plans to carry out more than 25 launches of launch vehicles from the Baikonur and Vostochny cosmodromes over the next year, as reported by RIA Novosti.
In particular, in the period from July 2020 to July 2021, three launches of Proton rockets and 17 launches of Soyuz-2 carriers are planned from Baikonur. In addition, six launches are planned from the Vostochny cosmodrome.
On July 23, according to the program of the International Space Station (ISS), the Progress MS-15 cargo spacecraft will be launched from Baikonur. It will deliver fuel, food, water, equipment for scientific experiments and other cargo into orbit.
The launch of the Soyuz MS-17 manned spacecraft with the crew of the next long-term ISS expedition is scheduled for October. The core team includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, as well as NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins.
Meanwhile, Roskosmos spoke about the construction of the second stage of the Vostochny cosmodrome. In Severodvinsk, JSC Industrial Technologies completed the construction and testing of a new launch pad for the Angara space rocket complex. Already in July, it will be loaded onto the Barents ship and delivered to Vostochny along the Northern Sea Route.
“Having launched in Severodvinsk, a giant launch pad weighing more than 2000 tons will follow on a ship through the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Strait, the Barents and Okhotsk Seas and enter the Sovetskaya Gavan port. There, a multi-ton structure will be loaded onto a barge and delivered along the Amur and Zeya rivers to Vostochny. It is planned that the launch complex will reach the cosmodrome by the first of September, ”Roscosmos reports.
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