How and why S7 creates its own rocket

A few months ago it became known that the S7 Group of Companies has been operating a C7 Development Center or S7 R&D for two years . This company is developing a light rocket, and in the long term and medium, for launches from the Sea Launch or ground sites.





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What, then, are these experiments with "cars"? And here everything is simple - this is a school. Elon Musk started with a light Falcon 1, Jeff Bezos - generally with the suborbital New Shepard, yes, that there, and the Soviet Union for the first time finished shooting the King's P-1A into space ... Sea Launch needs a large rocket. Whether it will be Soyuz-5 or Soyuz-6 from Roscosmos, or self-made from S7 R&D, the main thing is that the cosmodrome is in demand and makes as many launches as possible, and the need for them will definitely not disappear while humanity is looking into sky.








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