MOSCOW, November 12. /TASS/. The second launch of Russia’s new Soyuz-5 carrier rocket is planned for next year, CEO of the Roscosmos State Corporation Dmitry Bakanov said at a meeting with heads of diplomatic missions.
"This year, on April 30, as part of the Baiterek project, we launched what we call the Soyuz-5, which you, our friends [from Kazakhstan], call Sunkar or Sokol--a fundamentally new rocket. A second launch is planned for next year, and after the third, it will go into mass production," he said.
In May, Bakanov reported that Roscosmos was preparing two or three more new Soyuz-5 carrier rockets, after which their mass production was planned.