Dmitry Rogozin
The general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Twitter called the timing of the next launches of missiles of the Angara family.
“Two launches next year,” the manager said.
The manager did not specify which class of the media would be launched in each case.
The second test launch of the Angara-A5 heavy missile in six years took place on 14 December.
The first start of the heavy “Angara-A5” took place on December 23, 2014.
The first and only time the light Angara-A1.2 flew on July 9 of the same year.
The Angara missiles are developed and manufactured by the Khrunichev Center, the most problematic and unprofitable enterprise of Roscosmos. One of the company's failed projects is the development of the Angara family of launch vehicles, which in the heavy version should replace the Proton-M. The creation of missiles has been going on for more than a quarter of a century and required more than three billion dollars (according to other estimates, more than five). Currently, the debts of the Khrunichev Center exceed 80 billion rubles, which is equivalent to half the annual budget of the state corporation.
