MOSCOW, August 26. /TASS/. Designers at the defense-industrial corporation Industrial Association of Machine-Building in Reutov are considering the possibility of developing super-light rockets, the company’s CEO and chief designer, Alexander Leonov, said ahead of the international air and space show MAKS 2019.

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"I can say that we are considering the development of super-light rockets as a promising field of research," he noted.

Superlight rockets have a liftoff mass of up to ten tonnes capable of putting 200-kilogram payloads into near-Earth orbits.

Earlier the Industrial Association of Machine-Building (an affiliate of the corporation Tactical Missile Armament) worked on a program called Pragmatic Space. Under that program the light rocket Strela, created on the basis of the inter-continental ballistic missile UR-100N UTTKh, was designed and put into use.