Russia postpones Angara-A5V launches until 2025 due to space program cuts
Science & Space
January 22, 2016, 15:29
The Angara-A5V carrier rocket with an oxygen-hydrogen stage was supposed to be used for launching a manned spacecraft to the trajectory of flight to the Moon
MOSCOW, January 22 /TASS/. The Russian Space Corporation Roscosmos has postponed the launches of the Angara-A5V heavy carrier rocket with an oxygen-hydrogen stage until the middle of the next decade, suggests the draft of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025.
The Federal Space Program drafted by Roscosmos will be submitted to the Russian government.
The Angara-A5V was supposed to be used for launching a manned spacecraft to the trajectory of flight to the Moon.
Under the program, the ground experiments involving the Angara-A5V carrier rocket are to be completed in 2025. No test flights are being planned for an earlier date.