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Key facts
- Function
- Launch vehicle
- Manufacturer
- Khrunichev · KBKhA
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Cost per launch
- A5 : US$100 million (2021)
- Height
- 42.7–64 m (140–210 ft)
- Width
- A1.2: 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in) A5: 8.86 m (29.1 ft)
- Mass
- 171,500–790,000 kg (378,100–1,741,700 lb)
- Stages
- 2-3
- Derivative work
- A1.2pp A1.2 A5
- Comparable
- Naro-1 used a modified URM-1 first stage
- Status
- Active
- Launch sites
- Plesetsk , Site 35/1 , Vostochny , Site 1A
- Total launches
- 13 ( A1.2pp: 1, A1.2: 7, A5: 5)
- Success es
- 12 ( A1.2pp: 1, A1.2: 7, A5: 4)
- Partial failure
- 1 ( A5: 1)
- First flight
- A1.2pp: 9 July 2014, A1.2: 29 April 2022, A5: 23 December 2014
- Last flight
- A1.2: 23 April 2026 (most recent) A5: 19 June 2025 (most recent)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Angara rocket family (Russian: Ангара) is a family of launch vehicles being developed by the Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center. The launch vehicles are to put between 3,800 kg (8,400 lb) and 24,500 kg (54,000 lb) into low Earth orbit and are intended, along with Soyuz-2 variants, to replace several existing launch vehicles.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Angara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.