NPO. Lavochkin plans to develop a new upper stage for the rocket floating spaceport.
In 2024 it is planned to resume launches from Baikonur floating "Sea launch", and this rocket "Soyuz 7" can be fitted with a new upper stage, "Frigate-SBU", which should develop a "Scientifically-production Association. Lavochkin" (NPO. Lavochkin).
"Discusses the use of the upper stage, "Frigate-SBU" in the space rocket "Soyuz 7" complex "Sea launch" that the company owns "C7 space transportation system". At the end of 2020 will be finalized conceptual design. The first launch of the booster "Frigate-SBU" with the use of the carrier rocket "Soyuz 7" is planned for 2025", — said RIA Novosti Director General of the NPO. Lavochkin Vladimir Kolmykov.
We will remind, in the spring of 2020 "Sea launch" moved from the USA and got up to RAID the port of Slavyanka, Primorye, where he was taken in the Slavic ship-repair factory. As part of the transaction S7 got the entire property complex of the project: ship Sea Launch Commander and the Odyssey platform with the rocket segment equipment, ground the equipment at the port of long beach and intellectual property rights owned by the company Sea Launch, including trademark. 36th start, the latest, was produced with the “Sea launch” in 2014, after which a floating spaceport preserved. If the launches resume, then the platform will have to deliver in the Equatorial Pacific.
