MOSCOW. Feb 12 (Interfax) - The new Russian carrier rocket, Soyuz-5, could cost $55 million to launch, Alexei Ostanin, who is in charge of cooperation with Kazakhstan at TsENKI Center, which operates ground control infrastructure, said.
"The particular features of the new complex are its eco-friendliness (fuel components: oxygen and naphthyl), increased lift capacity (17.5 tonnes on parking orbit), market appeal (the launch price within a region of $50-55 million) and a 5.2-meter-diameter nose cone," Ostanin said in an interview with TsENKI's corporate newspaper The Cosmodromes of Russia.
A Roscosmos 2019 presentation said that the Russian-Kazakhstani space rocket complex Baiterek would ensure ten Soyuz-5 launches a year, with the one first worth $50 million.
Designed by RSC Energia and dubbed recently Irtysh, the medium-lift, two-stage Soyuz-5 rocket is part of Fenix R & D and should be able to deliver up 17 tonnes to parking orbit.