The first launch of the Russian manned spacecraft Oryol has been postponed from 2023 to 2025, Sergey Krikalev, executive director of the Roscosmos state corporation for manned programs, said. The Oryol reusable manned spacecraft was originally called Federation and has been developed by RSC Energia since 2009. The first launch of the ship was planned for 2015, and the first regular flight - for 2018. It was assumed that the "Eagle" would replace the "Unions" and "Progress".

Then the ship was reoriented to the Russian lunar program. In September of this year, it was reported that the first launch of the Orel on the Angara-A5 rocket from the Vostochny cosmodrome was scheduled for April-June 2024 and that it would take place without docking with the ISS. After, in 2024, there was to be another flight without astronauts, but with docking, and, finally, in 2025, the first manned flight was planned.

Now Krikalev said that the planned launch year was actually 2023, that is, the next one, but, judging by the current situation, there will apparently not be a launch of the ship before 2025. He also noted that the transfer is associated not so much with the ship as with the creation of ground-based testing facilities.

The reusable manned spacecraft Orel will be able to be in autonomous flight for up to 30 days, and as part of an orbital station for up to 1 year. The total mass of the ship during the flight to the orbital station will be 14.4 tons, the mass of the return vehicle will be 9 tons.