Move Over, Musk: Russia's Reusable Winged Carrier Rocket to Fly Like Plane
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11:23 29.06.2016(updated 12:42 29.06.2016) Get short URL
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The first stage of the Russian reusable carrier rocket will be winged to enable it to return to a spaceport like an ordinary plane.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian space agency Roscosmos is ready to begin the development of a flying prototype of a reusable first stage of a carrier rocket.
"The department for reusable space launch vehicles has been restored. It happened just a month ago. We invited the people who used to work on the Buran [space shuttle]. The department is headed by Pavel Lekhov, one of the designers of the Energia-Buran system," Roscosmos General Designer Alexander Medvedev was quoted as saying by the Russian Izvestia newspaper.
It is planned that the first stage of the carrier rocket will be winged to enable it to return to a spaceport like an ordinary plane, according to the news outlet.
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