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 by Staff Writers Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2018
The preparation and holding of planned launches of the Russian Soyuz-2 carrier rockets at Baikonur Cosmodrome will face technical difficulties in 2020, a source in the aerospace industry told Sputnik on Friday. "In late 2019, one of the two launch sites for Soyuz rockets on Baikonur will be decommissioned. Thus, all the load of over 15 Soyuz launches in 2020 will be placed on the remaining launchpad," the source said. According to the official, the so-called Gagarin's Start launch launchpad at the site number 1 would be put out of exploitation due to the upcoming decommissioning of the Soyuz-FG rocket. The source noted that a large number of Soyuz launches planned for 2020 was related to the implementation of the OneWeb internet satellite cancellation project, which would require up to eight launches. Moreover, from five to seven launches of manned missions on Soyuz and Progress spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), as well as several launches of unmanned spacecraft have been planned. The source continued by saying there was a "bottleneck" in the capacity of the testing facility at the launch site 31, which amounted to 15 rockets per year. Moreover, the capacity of the platform for preparing the Fregat upper stage for the launch, which is located at the same facility, is low, too, according to the source. The official noted, that it took almost two months to prepare a Fregat for a launch. Source: Sputnik News
Russian Soyuz-2 1a Rocket With Satellites Blasts Off From Vostochny Cosmodrome Vostochny (Sputnik) Dec 28, 2018 The Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying Russian Kanopus-V satellites number five and number six and foreign spacecraft successfully lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Thursday, a Sputnik correspondent reported. The rocket was launched at 05:07 a.m. Moscow time (02:07 GMT) as planned. Russian remote sensing satellites Kanopus-V number five and number six entered the preset orbit, a representative of Russian space agency Roscosmos told Sputnik later. "The spacecraft have successf ... read more
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