Date of third in seven years of starting “Angara-A5”

Third over seven years old Start of heavy rocket “Angara-A5” is scheduled for December 23. The corresponding date with reference to “Roscosmos” called the administration of the Kargasok district of the Tomsk region.

Starting a carrier from a cosmodrome Plesetsk should take place at 18:00 Moscow time. Backup Launch Date – December 24.

In the message of the district administration, it is noted that at the specified deadlines to residents of Kargasoksky, Parabelsky, Kolpashevsky and Verkhnektsky districts due to the expected drop in the spent second stage of the rocket should be limited to visiting the territory having a form of an ellipse with a 40 kilometers axes, the center of which is located in 65 kilometers north-west of Lake Trash.

“The fall and destruction of fragments of the carrier rocket is accompanied by a bright glow. Request to the population – to refrain from visiting the area of ​​the fall area at the specified time,” the report says.

Previous times “Angara-A5” started in December 2014 and 2020.

/Media reports.