Russia's first wholly new heavy-lift launch vehicle family designed since the Soviet collapse, using modular kerosene-fueled Universal Rocket Modules that can be combined for light, medium or heavy configurations. Developed partly to free Russia from launching its heaviest payloads from the leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, since Angara can fly from Russia's own Plesetsk and Vostochny cosmodromes.
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Vehicle ClassHeavy-lift expendable launch vehicle 2 ManufacturerKhrunichev State Research and Production Space Center 2 First Flight Date StatusOperational, flying at a low rate as Russia builds up Angara production and Vostochny launch infrastructure. 2 Status
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Source Angara A5 (Wikipedia)
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1. Angara (rocket family) (Wikipedia)
2. Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://astronautix.com/a/angara.html
The Angara 5A was a proposed variant of the modular launch vehicle that would use four universal rocket modules (URM's) as boosters surrounding one URM in the core, with a LOx/LH2 upper stage.
- Operated By: Roscosmos
Angara A5 (Wikipedia)
In Group: Russian Launch Vehicles, Lead sentence
Angara A5 (Russian: Ангара-А5), is a Russian expendable heavy lift launch vehicle which consists of one URM-1 core and four URM-1 boosters, a 3.6-metre (12 ft) URM-2 second stage, and an upper stage, either the Briz-M, Blok DM-03 or the KVTK.
Has Vehicle Class: Expendable Launch System, Lead sentence
Angara A5 (Russian: Ангара-А5), is a Russian expendable heavy lift launch vehicle which consists of one URM-1 core and four URM-1 boosters, a 3.6-metre (12 ft) URM-2 second stage, and an upper stage, either the Briz-M, Blok DM-03 or the KVTK.
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