The group will comprise representatives of the Energia Space Rocket Corporation as Russia’s chief enterprise for the ISS, the Khrunichev Center as the manufacturer of modules (both integrated into Roscosmos) and also NASA representatives
National Space Center to open in Fili in 2022 - Roscosmos head Rogozin
MOSCOW. April 29 (Interfax) - The National Space Center will be commissioned next to a rocket plant in Fili in 2022, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said on Twitter on Thursday. The National Space Center is under construction next to the rocket plant of the Khrunichev Center. Construction will be completed in 2022, Rogozin said.
The center, which will have an area of 250,000 square meters, will provide 20,000 engineers and designers with workspace.
The building of the National Space Center, with an approximate cost of 25 billion rubles, will be erected at the expense of the Moscow budget. The tower will be 248 meters high. Besides the Roscosmos headquarters, it will accommodate a techno-park of the aircraft and space industry. Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the National Space Center project in 2019.
One launch of heavy rocket Angara-A5 still close to $100 million, says designer
He explained that the costs of launching one heavy rocket lay between $50 million and $100 million
MOSCOW, December 24. /TASS/. The costs of launching one heavy rocket Angara-A5 is still close to $100 million for the time being, but they will certainly go down when serial production begins, the general designer of the design bureau Salyut at the Khrunichev Center, Sergey Kuznetsov, said on Thursday.
He explained that the costs of launching one heavy rocket lay between $50 million and $100 million. Angara was produced by an experimental unit. The costs are closer to the upper limit, but preparations for batch production are underway, Kuznetsov told the round-the-clock television news channel Rossiya-24 in an interview, adding that Proton and Falcon-9 were closer to the bottom of this price range.
Launch of the Angara-A5 rocket went perfectly, Roscosmos Chief says
Dmitry Rogozin noted that the plans of the state corporation for the next year include creating one light and one heavy versions of Angara
OMSK, December 19. /TASS/. Head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin praised the results of the Angara-A5 rocket launch and noted that this type of missile has great prospects, he told reporters on Saturday. The rocket’s launch went perfectly. Everyone is happy, so everyone immediately sees the great prospects of the Angara and also of the Omsk Polet, Rogozin said.
He noted that this launch was very important. Six years after the first test launches, we can say that the team of the Khrunichev Center and the Omsk Polet have done a great job in order to make a new rocket, updated, which fully confirmed the customer s requirements for carrying capacity and launch accuracy, Rogozin added.