Read also As soon as we get our conceptual design approved, we will be ready to demonstrate the rocket to the public at large in mock-ups and presentations and discuss some launch manifests, he added.
Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos and the Progress Space Rocket Center signed a contract in October last year on the conceptual designing of a space rocket system with Russia’s Amur first reusable methane-fueled rocket. The rocket will get a reusable first stage and will be launched from the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian Far East.
In February, Director of the Progress Space Rocket Center (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Baranov said that the work on the conceptual design of the Amur methane-fueled rocket was due to be completed in the third quarter of 2021.
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Russia s new reusable rocket engine will possibly have capacity for 50 flights ANI | Updated: Jan 17, 2021 10:21 IST
Moscow [Russia], January 17 (ANI/Sputnik): The reusable methane rocket engine developed for Russia s new Amur-SPG medium-class carrier rocket will be powerful enough to cover up to 50 space launches, files from Russian space agency Roscosmos released on the government procurement website show.
According to the documents, at least ten flights are currently stipulated by the engine s design. Consider measures to increase the possibility of using a serial liquefied [natural gas] rocket engine as part of the first stage of a launch vehicle up to 25, 50 times, the files say.