“Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has visited the plant where parts for the new generation space rocket will be manufactured,” The Siberian Times reported earlier this week.
The first Angara-A5 rocket is ready for rollout to the launch pad: Courtesy of Russian Ministry of Defence
According to the news agency, last month Rogozin:
“announced the Angara-A5V* would be built, assembled and tested in Siberia, with Omsk chosen as the location for almost all of the work.
On Wednesday he toured the Polyot factory in the city ahead of full production of the rocket starting in six years’ time.
The Angara-AV5 will be at the forefront of the new Russian era of Space exploration, and will be used in the first manned launch from the new Vostochny cosmodrome in 2020.”
While his visit, Rogozin got an opportunity to see the unique new technology that will go into manufacturing the rocket. Projections estimate about $400 million will be invested in the Polyot factory by 2020.
*) “The Angara rocket family is a family of space-launch vehicles being developed by the Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center. The rockets are to put between 3,800 and 24,500Â kg into low Earth orbitand are intended, along with Soyuz-2 variants, to replace several existing launch vehicles,” according to Wikipedia.
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