Launch scheduled for early April
At the Vostochny cosmodrome, specialists assembled the first flight rocket «Angara-A5» for the April launch — the first for this rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. According to the press service of Roscosmos, this launch will begin flight design tests of the Amur space rocket complex. Let us recall that the promising Russian rocket «Amur-LNG» («Soyuz-7») with the returnable first stage will be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome. The first launches will take place tentatively in 2028–2030.
Rocket and space industry specialists docked the space warhead as part of the «Orion» upper stage. and test payload with «package» of the three stages of the heavy launch vehicle «Angara-A5». The space warhead was assembled just the other day, and the «package» — back in February. Currently, electrical checks of the general assembly and preparation for reloading onto the transport and installation unit for transporting the rocket to the launch complex are being carried out.
