Russia Developing Launch Vehicles Similar To Falcon Heavy - Deputy Prime Minister

The launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy heavy-lift vehicle is a major success for the US space industry but Russia is also developing its own launch vehicles with reusable elements, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said on Friday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 12th April, 2019) The launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy heavy-lift vehicle is a major success for the US space industry but Russia is also developing its own launch vehicles with reusable elements, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said on Friday.

On Thursday, US space company SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy with a Saudi Arabsat-6A satellite on board and successfully landed the rocket's side boosters and central core back on Earth.

"Of course we are working on it [projects on launch vehicles with reusable boosters] ... And as for our [US] colleagues, we can only be happy for them, it is great success," Borisov told reporters when asked about progress in the Russian project aimed at building the same kind of spacecraft.

It has become the first commercial launch and the second ever flight for Falcon Heavy. The test flight of the vehicle took place in February 2018.