SRF has decided not to launch the rocket "Dnepr" with base "Clear" in 2015
Russian strategic Rocket forces not assume until the end of the year to implement the launches of Russian-Ukrainian conversion rocket "Dnepr" launch base "Clear" in the Orenburg region, said a source in the headquarters of the strategic missile forces.
Launches of Intercontinental ballistic missiles RS-20 on the Dnepr program in 2015 will be no more ", - said the source RIA " Novosti ",
He said that the Dnepr program provides for the disposal of missiles associated with the launching into orbit of the payload." Dnepr is a three-stage liquid-propellant missile, the first and second stages which are established for ballistic missile RS-20. Conversion of a rocket launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome and the base "Clear" near Orenburg. The previous launch was held at the end of March 2015. First Director General of the organization "Kosmotras" engaged in the modernization of the RS-20B, Alexander Serkin, assured that all obligations on launches of foreign satellites in the framework of the first convicts contracts will be made. This was confirmed by the official representative of Roscosmos Igor Burenkov. According Serkin, in 2015, we expect another two starts, except for the March launch. On the Internet office of Kosmotras stated that the 2016-2017 Firm has orders for five more runs.
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