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For car columnists made in Russia, the clock is now when the Maskus Sostorel State Space Agency Roscosmos still intends to carry out its first test launch of the Soyuz-5 missile.

“Yes, we have plans for December, everything remains in force,” said Roscosmos leader Dmitry Bakanov on August 22, According to the Russian State Agency TASS.

The rocket, which is expected to start operating in 2028, is unlikely to shock the novelty. A decade in the creation under the name of the development “Feniks” and in the people known as Irtysh, Soyuz-5 is widely regarded as a middle-class vehicle that reincarnates the Zenit-2 rocket.

Moscow plans throughout the Russian Union-5 will be the last member of Russia’s missile missile. It will be equipped with rd-171mv engines Built by NPO Energomash, which former Roskosmos Dmitry Ragozin praised as “no equal in the world” in 2019. Working with gas and liquid oxygen, soyuz-5 will be able to balance approximately 17-ton useful load.

When he meets the December term, the Soyuz-5 test launch will not be a small feat for ROSCOSMOS, which has faced a lack of funding since February 2022 at the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Space Agency had lost 180 billion rubles (2.24 billion dollars) by August 2024 and planned to expose non -standard assets worth more than 11.4 billion rubles on sale to attract their activities.

The war in Ukraine noted the turning point for the Russian space sector. The European Space Agency broke ties with Roscosmos in 2022, graduating from two institutions over the Rover Exomars Rover mission and further lunar companies. The ties also raised questions over the long -term cooperation between Moscow to maintain the international space station. Critically for the Soyuz line, dissolution of this relationship also saw Roscosmos pull From the ESA Space Center to Kuro, French Guyana-Pad for 27 launches of the Soya, which conducted similar satellites by Oneweb and Galileo in the period from 2011-2022.

Since then, ROSCOSMOS has shifted the equipment and looking to run Soyuz-5 from Kazakhstan Boyconur Cosmodrome, which Astana tries to take advantage To start your space industry and attract foreign operators and investments. The Russian space agency, which uses the Baikonur facility from the Soviet Union soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, pays Kazakhstan $ 115 million annually to rent the complex by 2050.

Getting a new missile model on the starting platform and from the ground is a difficult feat. This week’s highly mediocre successes and explosive failures of the SpaceX Test Rights His Giant Star – which removed a successful 10 -trial launch this week, after a number of fiery settings at the beginning of the year – Show so much. The Chinese Space Firm also focuses on the orbital debut for Zhuque-3 by the end of the year.

Russia itself Running test Last June, his first post-Soviet era-missile model “Angara-A5”, after two interrupted launch attempts. But as the space industry is increasingly progressing to more economical missiles for multiple use, a real test for Russian innovations will come after Moscow completed the development of the soy-7, known as the Amur-SPG-enthusiastic methane, is designed as a more economical replacement of the Russian horse’s rocket soyuz-2. Its first stage is designed to re -use up to 50 times. As of January, Roskosmos is Expected to finalize the rocket by 2030With its starting platform, which is being built in the Russian spaceport.

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