In 2017, in the year of the 160th anniversary of the birth of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a new exhibit appeared in the museum - a fragment of the engine of the first stage launcher ‘Soyuz - 2.1a’. It is one of the four main combustion chambers of the first stage side cores. The exhibit has traveled a long way across our country, it has arrived from The Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region.
VostOchny is a new non-defense cosmodrome of our country. Its main purpose is to provide Russia with independent access to space. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the decree on its construction on November 6, 2007. In 2011, construction began. Its location was not chosen at random: it is at the same latitude as BaikonUr, which affects the cost of delivery of cargo to the orbit. The transport infrastructure and energy support in the Amur region are quite well developed, the Far East is relatively sparsely populated, therefore, the launch path will not affect human settlements and the risks of falling rocket stages will be minimized. During the implementation of the project, the launch facility for the medium-class launcher ‘Soyuz-2.1a’ was erected at the cosmodrome.
VostOchny is a new non-defense cosmodrome of our country. Its main purpose is to provide Russia with independent access to space. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the decree on its construction on November 6, 2007. In 2011, construction began. Its location was not chosen at random: it is at the same latitude as BaikonUr, which affects the cost of delivery of cargo to the orbit. The transport infrastructure and energy support in the Amur region are quite well developed, the Far East is relatively sparsely populated, therefore, the launch path will not affect human settlements and the risks of falling rocket stages will be minimized. During the implementation of the project, the launch facility for the medium-class launcher ‘Soyuz-2.1a’ was erected at the cosmodrome.
The first launch from the new cosmodrome took place on April 28, 2016. The rocket ‘Soyuz 2.1a’ successfully launched into space. The rocket brought into orbit the satellites ‘Mikhailo Lomonosov’, ‘Aist-2D’ and Samsat-218D.
The cosmodrome will evolve. There are plans to build a launch facility for the launch of manned flight rockets and the launch of super-heavy rockets. Simultaneously with the construction of VostOchny, construction of a new city -- the administrative center of the cosmodrome -- within the closed administrative-territorial entity Uglegorsk began. In the new city will house scientific enterprises and design bureaus, space technology assembly facilities. On December 30, 2015, Vladimir Putin signed the federal law on the renaming Ulgegorsk into Tsiolkovsky in honor of the founder of theoretical cosmonautics, the world-famous scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
The cosmodrome will evolve. There are plans to build a launch facility for the launch of manned flight rockets and the launch of super-heavy rockets. Simultaneously with the construction of VostOchny, construction of a new city -- the administrative center of the cosmodrome -- within the closed administrative-territorial entity Uglegorsk began. In the new city will house scientific enterprises and design bureaus, space technology assembly facilities. On December 30, 2015, Vladimir Putin signed the federal law on the renaming Ulgegorsk into Tsiolkovsky in honor of the founder of theoretical cosmonautics, the world-famous scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
