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Russia wants super-heavy launcher based on Amur – SpaceWatch.Global
Luxembourg, 8 October 2020. – Russia has ambitions to develop a super-heavy launch vehicle, based on
“Designers have already put forward proposals on using the methane-fueled rockets first stage to create a carrier with an increased lifting capacity. It will weigh over 440 tonnes and be able to deliver 17 tonnes of payload into low orbit. The same stage could potentially be used as a side core of a super-heavy rocket,” Bloshenko was quoted.
Russias State Space Corporation Roscosmos and the Progress Space Rocket Center signed a contract for the Amur-SPG space rocket center to design the new Amu…
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