MOSCOW. April 18 (Interfax-AVN) - A light launcher Angara 1.2 will be test-fired from the 35th site of the Plesetsk Space Center in the Arkhangelsk region on June 25, a source from the rocket and space industry told Interfax-AVN on Friday.
"The maiden test-launch will take a suborbital trajectory, i.e. there will be no delivery of a simulated payload into orbit. The launch will test the operation of the rocket's first and second stages," the source said.
As reported earlier, an Angara 1.2 PP mockup was test-fueled in Plesetsk on April 7.
A universal family of light, medium and heavy-lift Angara launchers is being developed for lifting into orbit practically the entire range of payloads of the Russian Defense Ministry in the designated range of altitudes and orbit inclinations, including the geostationary orbit, and for guaranteeing genuine independence of Russian military space programs.
Angara launchers will not be using aggressive or toxic fuel, which will significantly improve environmental safety both in the areas around the spaceport and in the zone where rocket fragments fall.
An Angara mockup was brought to a launch site in November 2013 for testing cargo size parameters, and an Angara 1.2 prototype built for ground tests of launch hardware was successfully tested at a universal launch site in February 2014.