Russia is going to keep launching manned vehicles to the ISS from Baikonur till 2024 and then to shift manned program to Vostochny spaceport, - Roscosmos Head Igor Komarov reported in the course of the his business trip to Amur region.

The newest Russian heavy booster Angara-A5 will insert commercial satellite in the orbit during the next launch scheduled for 2016,- Khrunichev Centre Head Andrei Kalinovsky reported.

It is too early to replace proton with Angara since this is a new rocket and it didn’t have enough time to accumulate positive flight history – Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after Tsiolkovsky Andrei Ionin believes. On Monday Russian Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin demanded to abandon Proton and start using Angara instead.

The first launch of Angara-A5V heavy booster with test payload will be performed from Vostochny spaceport in 2023, - as stated in Russian Federal Space program draft for 2016-2025.

The first launch of Angara-A5V heavy booster will take place in 2021, - Roscosmos Head Igor Komarov stated.

Roscosmos will stop purchasing Zenit rockets manufactured by Dnepropetrovsk Yuzhmash plant, - Roscosmos spokesman Igor Burenkov reported. According to him the satellites planned to be launched with the help of Zenit rockets will be delivered to the orbit by new boosters of Angara series.

On December 23, 2014 at 08.57, Moscow time, The first Angara-A5 heavy booster was successfully launched from Plesetsk spaceport. It means that now Russia has a new up-to-date ecologically friendly heavy booster, - Roscosmos Head Oleg Ostapenko stated.

Testings of new Russian ecologically friendly booster of Angara series will be finished at Plesetsk spaceport in 2020.

Angara-5 heavy booster passed complex tests at the launchpad of Plesetsk spaceport, - Russian Ministry of Defence Aerospace Defence troops press-office representative colonel Alexey Zolotukhin reported.

The first launch of new Russian Angara heavy booster from Plesetsk spaceport is scheduled for December 25.