The Soyuz-5 medium-class
carrier rocket is being developed by Energia Space Rocket Corporation.
MOSCOW, May 31.
/TASS/. Russia is creating its new Soyuz-5 carrier rocket to capture the market
of commercial launches. The new rocket will be competitive by its price with US
rivals, Chief of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said
on Friday.
"We have certain
reserve potential as well and we are ready to compete with them. The Soyuz-5
rocket is aimed at capturing the commercial market, i.e. not only for solving
state tasks. It should be competitive by its price despite all economic policy
tricks by our rivals so that they won’t be able to cut the price to a level to
compete with us," Rogozin said.
As was reported on
Thursday, the US Department of Defense included Russia in the list of countries
whose services cannot be used after December 31, 2022 in carrying out space
launches. A notification to this effect was uploaded by the Pentagon’s Federal
Acquisition Regulation System to the website of the Federal Register - the
daily journal of the US Government.
The Soyuz-5 (Irtysh)
medium-class carrier rocket is being developed by Energia Space Rocket
Corporation. The rocket is designed for launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
as part of the Baiterek joint project with Kazakhstan. The Soyuz-5 will be able
to deliver the promising manned Federatsiya spacecraft into a low near-Earth
orbit. The Soyuz-5 is set to be developed by 2021. During the new rocket’s
flight tests, its four launches are planned to be carried out in 2022-2025.
Source: ITAR-TASS
31-05-2019
