In the Progress Rocket and Space Center (Samara, a meeting of the Council of the Chief Designers, which addressed the creation of the Soyuz-5 Space Rocket Complex was held.
In the work of the Council, chaired by the Director General of the RCC Progress, Dmitry Baranova and the Deputy General Director of Roskosmos State Corporation on Rocket Moscow, Operations of the NKI, Representatives of the RCC “Energia” named after S.P. Queen, NGO named after S.A. Lavochkina, NGOs of Automation named after Academician N.A. Semikhatova, RKS, NGO Energomash named after Academician V.P. Glushko, KBCH, Cenni (everyone includes the perimeter of Roscosmos State Corporation), as well as other enterprises and head institutions of the rocket and space industry.
The main goal of the Council’s meeting was to solve the organizational issues on the preparation and delivery of a draft project to the Soyuz-5 Space Rocket Complex to the State Customer – the State Corporation “Roskosmos”. In 2020, new components were introduced into the complex: two types of head fairings with a diameter of 5.2 and 4.11 m, an overclocking unit “Frigate SBU”, as well as some other systems and equipment. With reports reflecting the state of affairs on the development of new components of the complex, the heads of the RKK “Energia”, NGOs Lavochkina, Cenni and RKS.