Russian space agency to consider several projects of super-heavy space rocket

MOSCOW, February 24. /TASS/. The next launch of the Angara-A5 heavy lift carrier rocket will be carried out in the first half of 2016, a rocket and space industry source told TASS on Tuesday.

"The next Angara flight is scheduled for the first half of 2016," he said.

The rocket’s general designer Vladimir Nesterov said previously that the second heavy Angara rocket would be delivered to Russia’s military on late 2015.

The first test launch of the light version of the Angara rocket was carried out on July 9, 2014, and its heavy version with the Briz-M upper stage was launched on December 23.

Angara is a new-generation carrier rocket based on a universal module with oxygen-kerosene engines. The family includes carriers from the light to heavy class with the payload capacity from 1.5 to 25 tonnes.