Un record de lancements en 2012 côté russe?

03.01.2012 / 11:35 Russia is prepared to establish in 2012 a new space record


In the new 2012 Russia plans to beat its own newly established record space. Scheduled for 36 carrier rockets from Baikonur and Plesetsk, "Interfax" a source in the space industry. In addition, a number of planned launches of the international program "Sea Launch" and the Russian-European project "Union" in Kourou. "
"31 start-up will be made ​​from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, five - from the Plesetsk cosmodrome," - said the source. For 2012 plans to launch 15 missiles' Proton-M ", five rockets" Soyuz-FG "and five" Soyuz-U ", four" Soyuz-2.1b ", three rockets" Rokot "dvua" Soyuz-2.1a ", one "Zenith" and a "Soyuz-2.1v."
In the first quarter of next year will be held six launches of rockets "Proton-M", two rockets "Soyuz-FG", and one carrier rocket "Soyuz-U", "Soyuz- 2.1a "," Soyuz-2.1b "and" Rokot. "In the second quarter of 2012 will be the first launch of a light carrier rocket" Soyuz-2.1v "and three" Proton-M "and one" Soyuz-FG "," Soyuz-U "," Soyuz-2.1a "," Soyuz-2.1b. "The third quarter will be three launches of rockets" Proton-M ", two missile launch" Rokot "and" Soyuz-2.1b ", and and one launch of "Soyuz-FG" and "Soyuz-U." The fourth quarter will be three launches "Proton-M", two "Soyuz-U", a "Soyuz-FG" and one rocket "Zenit".