The price of the Angara rocket will decrease in the future – designer – Science & Space

MOSCOW, June 30th. / TAX /. The price of the new Russian space rocket Angara will be reduced when the rocket goes into series production, Deputy Director General of the Krunichev Space Center Sergei Chulkov told TASS.

He said that as long as the rocket remains in the research and development stage, “its main cost reflects greater losses than mass production, due to the need to perform final development work and adjust production technology.”

Additionally, the cost of the rocket increased from the overhaul and upgrade of equipment at the Polyot plant in Omsk, the official added.

“Once the Angara family’s mass production of rockets is launched at the Polyot plant, their price will be comparable to the price of Proton series launch vehicles, given the similar production process,” Chulkov said.

Cost reduction

The high cost price of the latest Angara rocket before the start of its series production is due to the need for the Khrunichev Space Center to work at two sites, the press office of State Space Corporation Roscosmos told TASS on Monday.

The Khrunichev Space Center previously stated in its 2019 budget notes that the cost price of the Angara rocket would be reduced from 7 billion rubles ($ 100 million) to 4 billion rubles ($ 57 million) by 2024.

Roscosmos previously claimed that the Khrunichev Space Center would produce several Angara carrier rockets for less than 5 billion rubles ($ 71 million) as part of the experimental design work.

Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said in January 2019 that the space company had adopted an action plan to increase the competitive advantage of Russian launch vehicles, with special emphasis on Angara and Soyuz-5 rockets.

The Angara are a family of new generation Russian space rockets. It consists of light, medium and heavy transport rockets with a lifting capacity of up to 37.5 tons. The new rocket family uses environmentally friendly propellant components. So far, Russia has only made two Angara launches, both from the Plesetsk spaceport: a light Angara-1.2PP took off in July 2014 and its heavy version took off in December 2014.