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Moscow prepares tests for the first reusable space rocket

They will carry up to 600 kg of payload in the eliosynchronous orbit

The Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects (FPI) has announced that flight tests of the system demonstrator of the first reusable rocket for space shipments are planned and scheduled for 2022. Boris Satovsky, head of the FPI, also explained how the preliminary project was developed by the Foundation itself, by Roscosmos (the Russian space agency), and by United Aircraft Corporation (UAC,...

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Moscow, Russia, 06/05/2018 08:27
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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