The Rocket Propulsion Center in Voronezh conducted the first tests of an oxygen-hydrogen rocket engine for the new upper stage of the Angara-A5 rocket. This was reported in “Roskosmos” on Wednesday, December 29.
“On December 29, at the test complex of the Voronezh rocket engine building center (part of the integrated rocket engine building structure NPO Energomash named after Academician V. P. Glushko of the Roscosmos state corporation), a fire test of the RD-0146D1 oxygen-hydrogen rocket engine, created at the enterprise, was successfully carried out for the upper stage KBTK of the heavy-class “Angara-A5” launch vehicle, – reported on the website of the state corporation.
Turning on the engine, working at the specified modes and stopping were carried out “in accordance with the test program laid down.”
On December 28, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a video recording of the launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. The launch took place at 22:00 from launch pad # 35 and proceeded as usual.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation noted that the Angara-A5 was taken to be escorted by ground means of the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
The Angara-A5 is a Russian heavy-class carrier rocket of the Angara family. It is the first heavy launch vehicle developed in Russia after the collapse of the USSR.
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Source: IZ
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