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S8 Ep908: PREVIEW for Later Today: Anatoly Zak compares Russia's Soyuz 5 and Angara 5 rockets to SpaceX's Falcon series. Russia's new boosters currently lack the reusability of the Falcon 9 and cannot match the heavy-lift capabilities of the Falcon Heavy.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW for Later Today: Anatoly Zak compares Russia's Soyuz 5 and Angara 5 rockets to SpaceX's Falcon series. Russia's new boosters currently lack the reusability of the Falcon 9 and cannot match the heavy-lift capabilities of the Falcon Heavy.
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For full terms, visit the QVC website. This is John Batchelor, speaking on Hotel Mars to Anatoli-Zak of the Russian space web, about the new boosters from Rus cosmos.

1:12.2

Soyuz 5, which will be manrated, a 2 ISS and low Earth orbit, and the Angara series.

1:20.8

So far, Angara 1.2 is the one that is tested.

1:24.9

It is not as big as anywhere close to what they need for low Earth orbit

1:29.4

for the bigger satellites. For that, Angara 5, this is a central core with add-ons to make it

1:36.4

stronger and stronger. Asking Anatole, how does this compare to SpaceX? He compares Soyuz 5 and

1:43.7

Angara 5 to Falcon Heavy. Note, to Falcon 9.

1:49.2

Falcon Heavy is beyond the reach right now of the Ross Cosmos new boosters.

1:55.7

Falcon 9 is reusable, however. To my understanding, Soyuz Five is once and done.

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