Russia upgrading booster "Frigate" with the aim of increasing its competitiveness in the commercial market, told RIA Novosti the General Director of NPO Lavochkin (included in the Roskosmos) Vladimir Kolmykov.
Earlier it was reported that tests of the upgraded upper stage, "Frigate" will take place with the launch of meteorological satellite "meteor-M" room 2-3 at Vostochny in 2021. "Frigate" is used in the rockets "the Union-2".
"to increase reliability of our upper stage, making it more competitive (lower prices for the customer), improvements in operational performance will be performed works on modernization of control system in terms of elimination of the most critical elements and combining apparatus control system in one monoblock (currently two), the modernization of telemetric systems in terms of replacement of electronic components of foreign, domestic," said Kolmykov.
According to him, due to the implementation of these operations weight nezapravlenny upper stage will drop to around 30 kilograms.
