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It can perform a flight to asteroids only as part of an inter-planetary system, according to the chief designer

MOSCOW, August 4. /TASS/. Russia’s Oryol latest spacecraft will be able to fly to asteroids and Mars as part of an inter-planetary system, Oryol Chief Designer Igor Khamits said in an interview with the Russian Space magazine published by the federal space agency Roscosmos.

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Khamits was appointed as the chief designer developing the Oryol spacecraft in June. Before that, this work was directed by Yevgeny Mikrin who died of the coronavirus on May 5.

Russia is developing its new Oryol manned spacecraft for lunar missions. Its first flight without a crew is planned for 2023 from the Vostochny spaceport and there are plans to send the spacecraft to the Moon in 2028.

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