“The launch of the Gonets spacecraft, scheduled for 2021, will be carried out on the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle. Earlier, the launch of these spacecraft was planned on an Angara-type launch vehicle, RIA Novosti quoted the state corporation as saying.

They added that the Soyuz-2 is fully adapted to the launch of the "Messengers".

Earlier it became known that Roscosmos terminated the contract with the Khrunichev Center for the production of the first Angara-1.2 missile ordered in the interests of the state corporation.