MOSCOW, June 7 Testing of special containers in which Angara rocket blocks will be delivered by rail to the Vostochny Cosmodrome will be completed after testing the sensors, said Alexei Varochko, general director of the Khrunichev Center, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the enterprise.
“< p>«Autonomous, integrated testing and certification of new means of transportation will be completed after the control checks of the sensor equipment installed on the containers and the evaluation of all the results that allow the commissioning of trial operation,» Varochko said.
According to him, Comprehensive testing of the ground infrastructure for the Angara missiles began with the loading of the components of the design and technological electric refueling mock-up, which was called the Angara-NZh (ground liquid) on special means of transportation.
In the future, to be sent to The spaceport is planned to use the same specially designed shipping containers.
A full-size model of the Angara for testing launch and technical systems arrived at the Vostochny Cosmodrome on June 5.
Construction of the launch complex for of this rocket on Vostochny began in 2018. It is planned to be completed in 2023 and, after testing, to carry out the first launch at the end of the year.
«The State Space Research and Production Center named after M.V. Khrunichev» (GKNPTs named after M.V. Khrunichev) was created on June 7, 1993 on the basis of Machine-building plant named after M.V. Khrunichev, leading its history since 1916, and the Salyut design bureau.