Khrunichev Center shifts production from Proton-M to Angara-A5 - Rogozin
MOSCOW. Aug 25 (Interfax) - Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center will stop producing Proton-M launch vehicles in the near future and shift to production of the Angara-A5 and Angara-A5M vehicles, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said in a meeting hosted at the center on Friday.
"The enterprise is highly important, strategic, considering that it will stop producing Proton-M launch vehicles in the near future and shift to the Angara-A5 family and its modernized configuration, the Angara-A5M, upon completion of tests," Rogozin said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided that an Angara-A5 should blast off from the Vostochny cosmodrome by 2021. All construction works, delivery of technological equipment, assembly and testing should be completed by then.
"Work that is similar and no less complex should be done with respect to the rocket, so that it is able to launch from Vostochny by the end of 2021," Rogozin said.