Russia's Prospective Reusable Stage Capable Of Returning At Hypersonic Speed - FPI

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 20th September, 2018) The winged stage of the Russian reusable carrier rocket will be capable of returning to a space center at a hypersonic speed, an official from Russia's Advanced Research Foundation (FPI) told Sputnik.

"The subsonic prototypes that are planned to be built within the next four years will be used to practice automatic landing and flight at subsonic speeds, while the hypersonic prototypes, will be used, respectively, to practice flight at hypersonic speeds," the official said.

"The development and testing should result in a fully-functioning demonstrator with a rocket engine that will be able to perform the entire test cycle, starting with the launch and flight to the required altitude, and ending with the return landing," the official added.

He specified that the Baikal booster project, which was developed by the Khrunichev Center,� was taken as the basis for the prototype of the reusable winged stage of the future carrier rocket.