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Angara-1.2

Index Angara-1.2

"Angara-1.2" is a Russian two-stage small-lift launch vehicle designed to launch a payload of up to 3.5 tons into low Earth orbit and up to 2.4 tons into a sun—synchronous orbit. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 30 relations: Angara (rocket family), Angara A5, Angara-1.2pp, Cryogenic fuel, Dinitrogen tetroxide, Energia (rocket), Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, Launch vehicle, Liquid oxygen, Low Earth orbit, Mixed oxides of nitrogen, Monomethylhydrazine, NASA, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 35, Production Corporation Polyot, RD-0124, RD-170, RD-191, RP-1, Russia, Soyuz-2, Specific impulse, Sub-orbital spaceflight, Sun-synchronous orbit, TASS, Universal Rocket Module, Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine, Vostochny Cosmodrome, Zenit (rocket family).

  2. Space launch vehicles of Russia

Angara (rocket family)

The Angara rocket family (Russian: Ангара) is a family of launch vehicles being developed by the Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center. Angara-1.2 and Angara (rocket family) are expendable space launch systems and space launch vehicles of Russia.

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Angara A5

Angara A5 (Russian: Ангара-А5), is a Russian expendable heavy lift launch vehicle which consists of one URM-1 core and four URM-1 boosters, a 3.6m URM-2 second stage, and an upper stage, either the Briz-M, Blok DM-03 or the KVTK. Angara-1.2 and Angara A5 are space launch vehicles of Russia.

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Angara-1.2pp

The flight of Angara-1.2pp (Ангара-1.2 первого пуска; Angara-1.2 pervogo puska meaning Angara-1.2 first launch) was the maiden flight of Russia's Angara series of rockets. Angara-1.2 and Angara-1.2pp are space launch vehicles of Russia.

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Cryogenic fuel

Cryogenic fuels are fuels that require storage at extremely low temperatures in order to maintain them in a liquid state.

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Dinitrogen tetroxide

Dinitrogen tetroxide, commonly referred to as nitrogen tetroxide (NTO), and occasionally (usually among ex-USSR/Russian rocket engineers) as amyl, is the chemical compound N2O4.

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Energia (rocket)

Energia (Energy; GRAU 11K25) was a 1980s super-heavy lift launch vehicle.

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Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

The Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (Государственный космический научно-производственный центр (ГКНПЦ) имени М. В. Хру́ничева in Russian) is a Moscow-based manufacturer of spacecraft and space-launch systems, including the Proton and Rokot rockets, and the Russian modules of Mir and the International Space Station.

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Launch vehicle

A launch vehicle is typically a rocket-powered vehicle designed to carry a payload (a crewed spacecraft or satellites) from Earth's surface or lower atmosphere to outer space.

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Liquid oxygen

Liquid oxygen, sometimes abbreviated as LOX or LOXygen, is a clear light sky-blue liquid form of dioxygen.

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Low Earth orbit

A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25.

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Mixed oxides of nitrogen

Mixed oxides of nitrogen (MON) are solutions of nitric oxide (NO) in dinitrogen tetroxide/nitrogen dioxide (N2O4 and NO2).

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Monomethylhydrazine

Monomethylhydrazine (MMH) is a highly toxic, volatile hydrazine derivative with the chemical formula.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Plesetsk Cosmodrome (p) is a Russian spaceport located in Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200 km south of Arkhangelsk.

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Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 35

Site 35 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome is a launch complex used by Russia's Angara rocket.

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Production Corporation Polyot

Production Association Polyot (flying, flight) is a Russian aerospace engineering state corporation best known for being the manufacturer of GLONASS satellites and the Kosmos-3M space launch vehicle.

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RD-0124

The RD-0124 (GRAU Index 14D23) is a rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and kerosene in an oxygen-rich staged combustion cycle, developed by the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau in Voronezh.

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RD-170

The RD-170 is the world's most powerful and heaviest liquid-fuel rocket engine.

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RD-191

The RD-191 is a high-performance single-combustion chamber rocket engine, developed in Russia and sold by Roscosmos.

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RP-1

RP-1 (alternatively, Rocket Propellant-1 or Refined Petroleum-1) is a highly refined form of kerosene outwardly similar to jet fuel, used as rocket fuel.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Soyuz-2

Soyuz-2 (GRAU index 14A14) is a modernized expendable medium-lift launch vehicle and the seventh major version in the Soyuz family. Angara-1.2 and Soyuz-2 are space launch vehicles of Russia.

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Specific impulse

Specific impulse (usually abbreviated) is a measure of how efficiently a reaction mass engine, such as a rocket using propellant or a jet engine using fuel, generates thrust.

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Sub-orbital spaceflight

A sub-orbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches outer space, but its trajectory intersects the surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched.

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Sun-synchronous orbit

A Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), also called a heliosynchronous orbit, is a nearly polar orbit around a planet, in which the satellite passes over any given point of the planet's surface at the same local mean solar time.

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TASS

The Russian News Agency TASS, or simply TASS, is a Russian state-owned news agency founded in 1904.

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Universal Rocket Module

Universal Rocket Module (URM) is the name of the modular liquid fuelled first and second stage of the Angara expendable launch system.

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Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine

Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH; 1,1-dimethylhydrazine, heptyl or codenamed Geptil) is a chemical compound with the formula H2NN(CH3)2 that is used as a rocket propellant.

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Vostochny Cosmodrome

The Vostochny Cosmodrome (Kosmodrom Vostochnyy, "Eastern Spaceport") is a Russian spaceport above the 51st parallel north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East.

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Zenit (rocket family)

Zenit (Зеніт, Зени́т; meaning Zenith) was a family of space launch vehicles designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Dnipro, Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union. Angara-1.2 and Zenit (rocket family) are expendable space launch systems.

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See also

Space launch vehicles of Russia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angara-1.2

Also known as Angara 1.2.