Angara (rocket family)

Based on Universal Rocket Module (URM) modular design rockets using the RD-191 engine Argara 1.1, 1.2, 3, 5 and Argara 7.

1=1 URM, 3=3 URM cores, 5=5 URM cores, 7=7 URM cores.

The Angara-1.1 rocket has been cancelled.

Angara-1.2 Pervy Polyot (First Flight)

The first test launch of the Angara rocket is set for June 27, 2014 from Site 35 Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The test flight carried a dummy payload took of on 9 July 2014. When in full service will lift up to four tonnes of payload into a low-Earth orbit - the kind of orbit used by Earth-imaging satellites.

Angara 5

Man rated, no dates or timeline. but unmanned tests from 2014.

The heavy-lift version designated Angara-5 capable of putting up to 7.5 tonnes into the geostationary transfer orbits used by telecommunications spacecraft as they make their way up to 36,000km above the equator.

The human-rated Angara-5 will launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome that is currently under construction at Amur Oblast, in the far east of Russia.

Angara-5 rocket on the launch pad Site 35 in Plesetsk in November 2014.

The first launch of the unmanned Angara-5 rocket is planned for December 2014 using a Dummy (a satellite mockup) with a second test flight in 2015 with a Operational (military) satellite.

The Angara-5 is due to start to enter regular service in 2018 with 2 launches growing to 7 launches a year by 2024.

Angara-5