The first flight of a new spacecraft produced by the Russian state space agency Roskosmos has been postponed to 2028, according to Russian media reports quoting chief designer Vladimir Kozhevnikov. The first launch of the transport spaceship Eagle had been planned for this year, but a few months before the launch, Dmitry Rogozin, who was then the head of Roskosmos, announced a postponement until 2024. The Moscow Times said that the project implementation deadline had to be revised due to the war in Ukraine. The reason for the current postponement has not been reported. To read the original story on RFE/RL’s Russian Service, click here.
Russian Space Agency Postpones First Flight Of New Spaceship Until 2028
A Soyuz 2.1b rocket with the Luna-25 lander blasts off from the launch pad at Russia's Vostochny cosmodrome on August 11.