2024-04-09 09:03:00
The first launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region has been cancelled.
The rocket with the Orion upper stage and test payload was supposed to launch from pad 1A at 12:00 on April 9, Moscow time. The launch was broadcast live by Roscosmos.
The start was canceled approximately two minutes before the scheduled time. “The launch command has been issued. Work managers should prepare to stop for 24 hours,” the announcer said during the broadcast.
Po words General Director of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov, the Angara launch was canceled automatically due to a failure of the pressurization system of the oxidizer tank of the central unit. A second rocket launch attempt is scheduled for April 10. added in a corporation.
Roscosmos TV
As stated in the state corporation, the current launch was supposed to open flight design tests of the Amur space rocket complex at Vostochny.
Angara is positioned as an environmentally friendly rocket that does not use toxic fuel components. It should replace the Proton-M launch vehicles, which have been used in Soviet and Russian cosmonautics since the mid-1960s.
Angara family rockets are developed and produced by the State Space Research and Production Center named following M.V. Khrunicheva. The family includes launch vehicles from light to heavy classes with a payload range from 3.5 tons (Angara-1.2) to 38 tons (Angara-A5B).
Previous tests of the Angara were carried out at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region. The first test launch of Angara-A5 took place on December 23, 2014, the second on December 14, 2020, and the third on December 27, 2021. In total, over the past ten years, six Angara missiles have launched from Plesetsk – three light and three heavy. According to the developers, flight tests of light and heavy Angara missiles are planned to be completed in 2025.
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