"The first launch is planned for 2021, while in 2024 we hope for a spacecraft with cosmonauts to dock at the orbital station," Komarov told Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Earlier on Monday, Putin said Russian space experts should study the possibility of launching super-heavy rockets from the Vostochny space center, under construction in Russia's Far East, the launch facilities of which will be needed for the Angara rocket carriers.
The heavy-class Angara-5 rocket, part of the Angara family of rockets designed to replace the Proton used previously to put space vehicles into a low Earth orbit, was first successfully launched in December 2014.
The family's super-heavy version that Roscosmos' Komarov announced will be launched within the next decade expects to have a much higher payload and will require a separate launch pad, according to spacecraft manufacturer Khrunichev State Research and Production Center.
