Angara-A5 heavy rocket, launched for the second time in its history on December 14, arranged by Ministry of Defense . This was stated by the Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov , reports RIA Novosti .
According to him, the characteristics of this carrier “already meet all the requirements of the main customer – the Ministry of Defense”.
In November, the chief designer of the Angara complex Dmitry Petrov said that heavy carriers of the first and second flight tests are structurally do not differ from each other.
In October, the CEO Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin reported that the first flight test of Angara-A5 carried out in 2014″ did not confirm the customer’s requirements, “because” the mass to be removed was lower than necessary. “
The Angara rocket, which in the heavy version is supposed to replace the Proton-M, is being created by Moscow The Khrunichev Center – the most problematic and unprofitable enterprise of Roscosmos. The creation of missiles has been going on for more than a quarter of a century and has required more than five billion dollars. Currently, the debts of the Khrunichev Center amount to tens of billions of rubles.