Next Generation Rocket Angara: News

Russian space agency places $31 mln order for manufacture of Angara light carrier rocket

The rocket is required to be manufactured and delivered by October 15, 2021



MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/. Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos has placed an order to the tune of 2 billion rubles ($31 million) for the manufacture of a light Angara-1.2 carrier rocket for the launch of Gonets-M satellites, according to the information posted on the government’s procurement website on Monday.

"The manufacture and the delivery of an Angara-1.2 carrier rocket for the launch of Gonets-M Nos. 33, 34 and 35 satellites. The initial (maximum) price of the contract is 2.028 billion rubles," the statement says.

According to the technical assignment, the rocket is required to be manufactured and delivered by October 15, 2021.

A light Angara-1.2PP was launched in July 2014. The rocket carried a spacecraft mockup. Now the Russian space agency has placed its first order for this rocket for launching real satellites.

Bids for an open tender, which will be held electronically, will be accepted through July 11, 2019.

"The supplier will be required to provide quality warranty for the products supplied. The warranty period shall be no less than ten years from the date of signing a document on the products’ acceptance by the state customer. Operational readiness and acceptance tests should be carried out in compliance with GOST state standards and technical conditions in the process of controlling the quality of the Angara-1.2 carrier rocket," the tender’s documentation says.

The output’s technical acceptance should be conducted by the quality acceptance office of Russia’s Defense Ministry. In the manufacture and the delivery of the Angara-1.2 carrier rocket, the main contractor must prevent any theft (loss) of data media constituting a state secret, including illegitimate access to the data constituting a state secret, as well as data leaks constituting a state secret, via technical channels," according to the documentation.
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the trouble with these smaller rockets for LEO satellites - is they spend 1/2 their time competing with "decommissioned" ICBMs like the Rokot
so they always seem "expensive" by comparison …. maybe the Russians are finally running out of "Rokot"s

must admit I didn't realise that the RD-180 version which is a 2 nozzle version of the RD-170 has a similar liftoff thrust to the Soyuz-2
just to confuse everyone they are going to call it the Soyuz-7 Volga
its conceivable that it could replace the old workhorse Soyuz-2 one day …

if they did that …. then every launcher the Russians use will be derived from the original RD-170 …
which started life as reusable boosters for the Energia/Buran ….

RD-191 Angara 1.2 …. 1 nozzle (replace Rokot)
RD-180 Soyuz-7 ………. 2 nozzles (replace Soyuz-2)
RD-171 Soyuz-5 …….. 4 nozzles (replace Zenit)
5x RD-191 Angara A5 ….. 5 nozzles
6x RD-170 + 1x RD-180 Yenesei Super Heavy ….. 25 nozzles (replace Energia-Buran)

pretty remarkable ….
incredible economies of scale and cost savings …. and quality control benefits

all they have to do is …. do it all
and build new launch pads … and … and … and

apparently most of the facility is going to be underground
based on the existing Angara pad at Pletsetsk which seems similar to Proton pads at Baikonur and Plesetsk

one thing is for sure …. the bodies of those guys that embezzled all the money will be buried under a hell of a lot of concrete ...

those 2 towers you can see it background is the Soyuz launch pad

http://kosmosnews.fr/2019/07/06/youri-borisov-vice-premier-ministre-visite-le-chantier-angara-a-vostochny/

meanwhile the space city nearby is being expanded Tsiolkovsky

http://kosmosnews.fr/2019/06/10/la-cite-de-tsiolkovsky-continue-de-se-construire/

things are happening …. Gazprom is putting gas pipelines into Tsiolkovsky city too
from the nearby (massive ) Amur gas processing plant

http://www.gazprom.com/press/news/2019/april/article478794/

they still seem to be using Blagov-whatever-sk airport to fly in upper stages and satellites etc
guess the planned Vostochny airport will be done after the Angara pad is finished …

apparently they are looking at the Angara boosters flying back to the airport
that the Bartini group are worked on again …..the Baikal project resurrected
so guess it makes sense to understand what you need for them first

those Baikal flyback boosters are pretty big …. easily bigger than a Mig-31 ….
what a strange airport that would be - with squadrons of 4 jet powered boosters flying back in ….

that would be worth seeing as a tourist …. watch the launch from the airport …. then see the boosters come flying in
30 minutes later …

Trials of Angara carrier rockets to continue, says Russian space agency

MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/. Air trials of Angara carrier rockets will continue, a source in the press service of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos told TASS on Saturday, adding that serial production is planned to start in 2023.

"According to production plans of the state corporation Roscosmos, serial production of Angara carrier rockets is being set up and will be started in 2023 at the Polyot Production Association (Omsk). Currently resumption of air trials of that promising rocket is being prepared," the source said.

New test-launch of Angara-A5 carrier rocket planned for 2nd-3rd quarter of this year

Russia to launch new Angara carrier rocket in 2020

MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS/. The second test-launch of Russia’s Angara-A5 heavy carrier rocket is scheduled for the second-third quarter of this year, CEO of the Khrunichev Space Center (the Angara rocket manufacturer) Alexei Varochko said on Wednesday.

"The launch [of an Angara-A5] will take place in the second-third quarter of this year," the chief executive said.

https://tass.com/defense/1119257

Second heavy Angara-A5 missile to be sent to Plesetsk Cosmodrome this March

Earlier, the Maksimov Space Systems Institute Research representative Yuri Klimenko disclosed that the number of Angara flight tests was reduced from ten to six

MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS/. The second Angara-A5 heavy carrier missile is scheduled for delivery to Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk Region) in March-April this year, says Alexey Varochko, Director of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, the maker of the missile.

"We have a goal: March-April - the machine [Angara-A5] goes to the Cosmodrome," Varochko told Russian Veterans Union and Russian Military Commanders Club during their visit to the Center.

After that, a train will return from Plesetsk to Omsk’s Polyot engineering company to fetch modules for the third Angara and bring them to Moscow, to the Khrunichev Center, where the modules would undergo final tests and the missile would be assembled.

Earlier, the Maksimov Space Systems Institute Research representative Yuri Klimenko disclosed that the number of Angara flight tests was reduced from ten to six.

Angara is a family of Russian carrier missiles of light to heavy classes. The new family uses eco-friendly duel components. So far, the missile had only two launches: the light Angara-1.2PP and the heavy Angara-A5, both started from Plesetsk in 2014.

https://tass.com/defense/1119269

The Russian Ministry of Defense has ordered four Angara-A5 launch vehicles

According to the newspaper "Vedomosti" in the material of Alexei Nikolsky, "the Ministry of Defense ordered four launch vehicles" Angara ". The cost of the contract is about 18 billion rubles, ”included in the“ Roskosmos ”GKNPC Khrunicheva and the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract for four Angara-A5 space launch vehicles, RIA Novosti reported on June 3 and confirmed to Vedomosti a source in the Ministry of Defense. In January 2020, according to RIA Novosti, it was expected that Roscosmos and the Ministry of Defense would conclude the first contract for the serial supply of Angara-A5 missiles after a test launch scheduled for 2020.

The contract is estimated at over 18 billion rubles. and must be completed before 2024, says a source in the Ministry of Defense. According to the manager of the space industry, the conclusion of this long-term contract will allow them. Khrunichev did not stop the untwisted production pending the contracting of the necessary cooperation chain, which could have happened if the conclusion of the contract had been postponed until the launch of the second Angara-A5 from Plesetsk. The first and so far the only launch of the "heavy" modification of the Angara from Plesetsk took place in 2014; currently, the Vostochny Cosmodrome is constructing a second launch pad for launching missiles of this type.

Angara is one of the most long-term projects of the Russian space industry, the decision to create this rocket to replace Proton, launched by Baikonur, which appeared on the territory of independent Kazakhstan, was made in the early 1990s. However, real funding for the project began in 2006.

According to the federal official, the decision to prematurely sign the Angara contract was made as part of the decision to prematurely conclude a number of major contracts of the Ministry of Defense in order to support the defense industry in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. These decisions include the expected contract for the supply of 76 Su-34 front-line bombers worth over 100 billion rubles, which was reported by Izvestia. In addition, a formal signing of the contract and the laying of two universal landing ships in exchange for the Mistral-class ships of this class, which were not delivered due to the embargo by France in 2014, is expected soon, the Vedomosti interlocutor says.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4047965.html

Angara heavy rocket arrives to northwest Russia’s Plesetsk launch center — source

MOSCOW, August 22. /TASS/. Russia’s Angara-A5 heavy carrier rocket was recently delivered to the Plesetsk space center in northwestern Russia for pre-launch preparations, a rocket and space industry source told TASS on Saturday.

"A train with the heavy Angara-A5 rocket arrived to the space center recently," the source said.

The rocket left the Khrunichev center overnight to August 14. Earlier, a source in the rocket and space industry told TASS that it was expected to arrive to the northwestern Russian launch facility on August 17.

Head of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said in May that flight tests of the heavy-class Angara-A5 heavy-lift launch vehicle were due to resume in the fall of 2020.

The Angara is a family of next-generation Russian space rockets. It consists of light, medium and heavy carrier rockets with a lifting capacity of up to 37.5 tonnes. The new family of rockets uses environmentally-friendly propellant components. So far, Russia has carried out only two Angara launches, both of them from the Plesetsk launch center: a light Angara-1.2PP blasted off in July 2014 and its heavy version lifted off in December 2014.

Unloading of the modules of the Angara-A5 launch vehicle is currently underway at the Plesetsk cosmodrome

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Russia starts developing new engine for Angara rockets

KUBINKA, August 27. /TASS/. Russian rocket engine companies initiated implementation of a project on the upgraded RD-191M engine for Angara launch vehicles, chief executive of the rocket motor developer Energomash Igor Arbuzov told TASS in an interview at the Army 2020 Forum.

"RD-191 engine upgrade activities have started. The RD-191M [engine] will appear on its basis for the Angara rockets line," Arbuzov said.

The project will continue until 2023, he added.

"It [the RD-191M engine - TASS] differs from the base one by the thrust in the first instance - it will be augmented by 10%. We should confirm it with the ten-percent margin so that it is as reliable as possible. The whole range of structural elements will change in connection therewith: the burner and the series of load-bearing elements. The gas generator structure and a portion of turbine pump plants will be changed," Arbuzov said.

All these alterations will lead to higher reliability of the engine because it will be used in the piloted version of Angara, he added.

Angara is the family of Russian launch vehicles having classes from light to heavy. The new family uses environment-friendly fuel components.

Second launch of heavy Angara rocket postponed until November 28 — source

https://tass.com/science/1218631

George1 wrote:Second launch of heavy Angara rocket postponed until November 28 — source

https://tass.com/science/1218631

To surprise of absolutely no one

PapaDragon wrote:

George1 wrote:Second launch of heavy Angara rocket postponed until November 28 — source

https://tass.com/science/1218631

To surprise of absolutely no one

What's your point sunshine. Your are implicitly trying to paint this as some sort of epic failure while keeping totally quiet on
Musk's diarrhea project for the farm cistern Mars rocket. A delay to November 28, 2020, my God the humanity!

Either put up or shut up.

kvs wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:

George1 wrote:Second launch of heavy Angara rocket postponed until November 28 — source

https://tass.com/science/1218631

To surprise of absolutely no one

What's your point sunshine. Your are implicitly trying to paint this as some sort of epic failure while keeping totally quiet on
Musk's diarrhea project for the farm cistern Mars rocket...

Trampoline Man is "my" problem (not mine actually, he ain't wasting my money or reputation)

With him running the clownshow you get only things you can realistically expect: failure and humiliation

And stop fanboying over Musk, seriously, considering how much he is on your mind one would think you love him in more than platonic way

Regular reminder: other people's fuckups are no excuse for your own

The article says the launch window was from 20th of Nov to 29th of Nov and previously it had been mentioned that the 24th was the launch date.

Now they are planning to do it on the 28th which is within the same launch window.

Big deal... this is not a failure or a problem.

Energy characteristics of Angara-A5 rockets of various modifications for launching payloads on interplanetary trajectories according to a direct flight scheme.

Nice graphic, but not all that relevant. The Angara was never designed to send heavy probes to Jupiter. And for those purposes we
now, finally, have nuclear propulsion that makes this graphic totally irrelevant since it only applies to inertial guidance.

Khrunichev proposed an Angara heavy, but it never went anywhere. It would really only have value if heavy LEO platforms
were needed. Unpowered solar system missions no longer make much sense.

kvs wrote:It would really only have value if heavy LEO platforms
were needed.   Unpowered solar system missions no longer make much sense.  

Or when heavy nuclear propelled craft are needed.

So the Angara A5 is classified as a "Heavy lift" launch vehicle, does that mean it is capable of launching manned crew to space?

Also, are there plans to launch cosmonauts from Plesetsk or is that task reserved for Vostochny?

Shoigu inspected the tests of the Angara launch vehicle

PLESETSK / Arkhangelsk region /, November 17. / TASS /. Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu inspected ground tests of the Angara launch vehicle. This was reported on Tuesday in the military department.

"Shoigu inspected the tests of the Angara-A5 carrier rocket at the universal launch complex of the Plesetsk cosmodrome, where the head of the military department arrived on a working trip, by the combat crews of the Russian Defense Ministry," the message says.

Earlier, a source in the rocket and space industry told TASS that the second test launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome was tentatively scheduled for November 28.

Shoigu said that from 2025 Plesetsk will be able to carry out up to 20 launches of Angara per year

PLESETSK / Arkhangelsk region /, November 17. / TASS /. The Plesetsk cosmodrome, after the completion of the work planned until 2025, will be able to carry out annually up to 20 launches of light and heavy Angara carrier rockets. This was announced on Tuesday by Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu.

"The implementation of the planned complex of work until 2025 on the creation of the Angara space rocket complex [KRK] will allow up to 20 launches of Angara launch vehicles of light and heavy classes from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, as well as ensure guaranteed independent access and the constant presence of Russia. in space ", - he said during the check of readiness for launches of the launch complex of the" Angara "missile complex and hearing reports from the command of the Aerospace Forces.

According to the Ministry of Defense, the universal launch complex includes more than 130 structures and over 50 technological systems.

The Angara spacecraft complex includes a family of light, medium and heavy launch vehicles, a universal launch complex, technical complexes for the preparation of launch vehicles and space warheads, a complex of measuring instruments, information collection and processing, as well as supporting infrastructure.

The new rocket family uses environmentally friendly propellants. So far, only two launches have been carried out, both from the Plesetsk cosmodrome: the light Angara-1.2PP launched in July 2014, the heavy Angara-A5 in December 2014.

PhSt wrote:So the Angara A5 is classified as a "Heavy lift" launch vehicle, does that mean it is capable of launching manned crew to space?

Also, are there plans to launch cosmonauts from Plesetsk or is that task reserved for Vostochny?......

It's not heavy lift and it's not capable of launching manned flights (currently)

Also it will not launch cosmonauts from Plasetsk, military doesn't need manned missions

Define "heavy lift". Its a 25T to LEO class launcher. Yeah, its heavy lift.

Heavy lift just means that... can lift heavy payloads into space.

Able to take crews into space is something different... normally indicated by being man rated or capable of carrying people... it is a safety thing more than a power thing... the requirements for live cargoes are obviously higher and more strict than for launching stuff.

2nd A-5 setting up for fuelling tests at the launch pad, then its off to the fuelling station to fill the tanks of the upper stage Briz-M.  Looking forward to this launch    



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Preliminary date for the Angara A5 rocket test launch is December 14 said a source in Roscosmos today:
https://br.sputniknews.com/russia/2020120516566579-russia-agenda-2-teste-de-lancamento-do-foguete-angara-a5-para-14-de-dezembro/

Hoping for the best:

Second Angara-5 to return to launch pad

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/angara5-flight2.html#2020