MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax-AVN) - The work to create a heavy-class carrier rocket, Angara-A5V, should proceed along three lines, Yury Koptev, head of the federal space agency Roscosmos' Scientific-Technical Council, told reporters on Tuesday.
"To begin with, the current carrier rocket should be adapted to the Amur project of building Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region. Second, the new Angara must be prepared for use in human flights programs. And third, an oxygen/hydrogen booster unit must be designed before the carrier rocket attains readiness status in 2022," he said.
Roscosmos' Scientific and Technical Council earlier backed the project to create an Angara-A5V carrier rocket and to adjust it to next-generation transportation and manned flights to near-Moon space and the Moon.
A recommendation was provided to the Khrunichev space corporation and to the rocket corporation Energia to develop such a system.
Koptev said that the Angara-A5V carrier rocket, capable of putting a payload of up to 35 tonnes into orbit, is a step to further develop the Russian versatile, module-types Angara rocket.
"The development of the Angara-A5V carrier rocket is expected to facilitate Russia's presence on the global market of space launches," he said.
Roscosmos was advised to add a project for the development of a liquefied natural gas engine to the draft federal space program through 2025, and to put it into use, including on super-light class shuttle carrier rockets.
Roscosmos was also advised to think of schemes of state funding for projects to develop innovative systems and components for a space system with a super-heavy class carrier rocket, to be used in exploring the Moon, Mars and other planets of the Solar System.