Vostochny Cosmodrome has received new racks that will allow storing several sets of Angara family launch vehicle blocks. “The assembled racking is located in the block warehouse, which is designed for receiving, unpacking and storing the parts of launch vehicles, as well as other auxiliary equipment. (…) Such an engineering solution makes it possible to simultaneously store several sets of parts not only for Soyuz but now for Angara as well,” the statement said.
The state corporation noted that earlier similar racks were used to store parts of Soyuz rockets. It added that the three-tier collapsible structure is Vostochny’s know-how. There are no similar solutions at other cosmodromes.
In April, Director General of the Khrunichev Centre Alexei Varochko said that flight tests of the Angara-A5B heavy rocket – the Angara-A5 carrier with an oxygen-hydrogen upper stage KVTK – will begin in 2030 and will be completed in 2035.
In the same month, it became known that the Energomash Research and Production Association had successfully conducted the first control and technological tests of the RD-191M engine, which is designed for Angara-A5M.
