Russian state corporation “Roscosmos” intends to carry out more than twenty space launches from June 2020 to July 2021 of the year. This was reported on a public procurement website..
Total, according to the site, It is planned to launch twenty launch vehicles from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and six launches from the Cosmodrome “Oriental”. At the same time clarifies, that “Baikonur” three missile launches will be made “Proton” and 17 rocket launches “Soyuz-2”, and with “Eastern” six launch vehicles will be launched “Soyuz-2”. There is no information about the cargoes planned to be put into orbit.
Former CEO “Roscosmos” Dmitry Rogozin stated, that during 2020 years, the corporation planned to implement 33 space launch, of which nine may be disrupted due to the coronavirus pandemic and the bankruptcy of OneWeb.
Today “Roscosmos” made only seven space launches, of which four were carried out from the spaceport “Baikonur”, and three from the spaceport “Plesetsk”. Starts with “Eastern” this year were not produced.
Earlier, the corporation announced the completion of construction and testing of a new launch pad for the space rocket complex. “Angara” for the spaceport “Oriental”. The first small-sized sections of the table were sent 11 June to the spaceport by rail.
