The first launch of the two-stage expendable Soyuz-5 launch vehicle took place from the site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the evening of April 30, Roscosmos reported.
A video clip of the launch appeared on the government company’s Telegram channel.
Roscosmos reported that the first and second stages of Soyuz-5 were operating normally, and “the mass model was launched on the designed suborbital trajectory.” It will then fall into the Pacific Ocean in an area closed to shipping and aviation.
Advance Center for Missiles and Space in Samarra Announce In 2015, he intends to include the construction of the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle in the Federal space program until 2025. In 2016 work Move to the active phase.
Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, which served as lead developer of the new rocket, male In 2017, the first launch is scheduled to take place in 2022. However, the first launch was later repeated transfer.