Angara-A5 Rocket

Published: 19th Apr, 2024

Context

Russia test-launched its Angara-A5 space rocket for the first time from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far East, successfully putting a test load in low orbit as part of an effort to develop a new post-Soviet launch vehicle.

About

It is a Russian heavy lift launch vehicle Weighing 773 tonnes at lift-off, Angara A5 has a payload capacity of 24.5 tonnes to a 200 km (120 mi) x 60° orbit.
Angara A5 is able to deliver 5.4 tonnes to GTO with Briz-M, or 7.5 tonnes to the same orbit with KVTK.
The Angara A5 is said to be much more environmentally friendly compared with Proton M.

India’s LVM 3

LVM-3 or Launch Vehicle Mark-III, is a three-stage medium-lift launch vehicle developed by ISRO and earlier known as the GSLV Mark III.
It is the most powerful rocket in the space agency.
Lift-off mass: 640 tonnes.
Payload capacity:

upto 8,000 kilograms to a low-Earth orbit.
Upto 4,000 kilograms of payload to a geostationary transfer orbit

Its cryogenic upper stage is powered by CE-20 (India’s largest cryogenics engine).
The core stage is powered by two L110 liquid-stage Vikas rockets.

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Angara-A5 Rocket

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