On Wednesday Russia's state space corporation, Roscosmos, unveiled plans to develop a new "Amur" rocket. The booster will be powered by new and as yet undeveloped rocket engines that burn methane.

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MOSCOW. July 9 (Interfax) - The new Soyuz-5 rocket as part of the Russian-Kazakh Baiterek project will be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in December 2025, Roscosmos head Dmitry Bakanov said.

Plans for the Amur rocket were unveiled in 2020. It is intended to have a reusable first stage and methane-fueled engines enabling it to land back on Earth post-launch like SpaceX’s Falcon 9.

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Russia's space corporation Roscosmos unveiled plans for its reusable "Amur rocket" this week — a design, planned to be completed by 2016, that borrows heavily from SpaceX's Falcon 9, as Ars ...

The Amur rocket is being designed at a given cost of a launch service (with a minimum price of $22 million) and, therefore, is intended for foreign customers as well, Bloshenko said.

The new rocket will feature ambitious characteristics that will make it competitive by 2026-2027, ... Russia’s new Amur rocket to carry Sfera next-generation satellites as first payload.

Compared to the SpaceX’s 230-foot (70 meters) tall rocket, powered by nine engines, with a 25-ton payload, the Amur has only 180 feet (55 meters), five engines, and an 11.6-ton payload.