To launch in December you should have an Angara A5 assembled and tested.
MOSCOW, May 13,2016. /TASS/. The second Angara-class heavy carrier rocket is scheduled to blast off from the Plesetsk spaceport in north Russia in December, a source in the space rocket industry told TASS on Friday.The Angara rocket will orbit at least two new-generation satellites for Russia’s space-based echelon of the missile attack early warning system, the source said."The plans of the launch have been adjusted again. An instruction has been received to carry out the launch until the end of the year, in December at the latest," the source said.The Angara heavy carrier rocket is designed to orbit at least two new-generation satellites of the missile attack early warning system, according to the source."There are plans to orbit at least two, possibly three new-generation satellites for the space-based echelon of the missile attack early warning system. They exceed their predecessors’ technical capabilities by many times, including the term of their operation in orbit," the source said.
Second launch of heavy Angara rocket postponed until 2018 — manufacturerMOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/. The second launch of the heavy Angara-A5 rocket was postponed until 2018, Andrei Kalinovsky, who heads the rocket’s manufacturer, told the Kommersant business daily."We have put it off until 2018," the Khrunichev Center chief said in an interview, published in Wednesday’s edition of Kommersant. The launch was previously scheduled to take place this year."The reason is quite trite: the research and development efforts coincided with the transfer of production to (the Siberian city of) Omsk, and, by mutual consent with the Defense Ministry, we decided to hold additional tests. They are needed to confirm that the Omsk plant is ready from the point of view of production quality, sequence of production operations and qualification of personnel," Kalinovsky was quoted as saying.The light version of Russia’s new environmentally friendly rocket is expected to be launched in 2019, and its components are currently being tested."We have signed one solid contract with the Korean aerospace institute for a launch in 2020. One launch so far, but the overall interest to this rocket on the commercial market is quite high," the official said.The new-generation Angara carrier rocket is based on versatile rocket modules with environmentally friendly oxygen/kerosene engines. The Angara family comprises carrier rockets from the light to heavy classes, intended to replace the Proton and Rokot launch vehicles. The light version of the Angara carrier rocket was launched in July 2014 for the first time, while the heavy version of the carrier rocket blasted off in December 2014.
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Quote from: Stan Black on 07/21/2017 12:46 pmIn Geofizika-Kosmos 2016 annual report is this fragment:-QuoteСфера для 14Ф151, 14Ф152https://disclosure.1prime.ru/portal/default.aspx?emId=7718649612Is the name of this satellite ‘Sfera-S’?
