The eastern cosmodrome under the control of the center of operation of the objects of ground-based space infrastructure (included in the state corporation “Roskosmos”) specialists of the contracting organization “Industrial technologies” have begun to install the components of the starting table frame for the Angara launch vehicle. The frame consists of 16 parts: four angular (43 tons each), eight medium (23 tons) and four pylons (the weight of each is 52 tons).
Installation works of the components of the starting table started in December 2020 from the installation of the metal conversion of the gas plant. In addition, another frame, consisting of two spars (weight of each 93 ton) and two beams weighing 49 tons each, has already been mounted into the design position. Completion of the installation of the starting table design is planned in early November 2021.
Sergey Kostarev, Deputy General Director of Cenni for the creation of a cosmodrome East: “The big way has already been done, but the most difficult thing is still ahead. Works on the starting complex for the Angara launch vehicle go around the clock, responsibility for each operation – colossal.”
Starting table for the Angara carrier missile with a total mass of more than 2 thousand tons was delivered from Severodvinsk to the East Space in September 2020 on the Northern Sea Route.