Russia To Launch Heavy Angara Later This Year

Angara 5 launch
Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense
MOSCOW—Russia will resume test launches of its new Angara launch vehicles this year, with a flight of the heavy-lift Angara A5 variant scheduled for the third quarter, Interfax newswire reported this week. Interfax cited Sergey Kuznetzov, chief designer of Salyut Design Bureau. The bureau is a part...
Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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