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Angara A5, Russia’s largest operational rocket, took flight from the Vostochny Cosmodrome earlier today.

Thursday’s launch marks the fourth mission for the Angara-A5, designed as a heavy-lift version within the new Angara family of rockets, intended to replace the Soviet-era Proton rockets - Newsx

Moscow, Apr 12 (Prensa Latina) Space is an important issue to which Russia devotes special attention, President Vladimir Putin said today, when meeting with his Belarussian counterpart, Alexandr Lukashenko, and cosmonauts Oleg Novitski and Marina Vasilevskaya.

The Russian Defense Ministry announces that the test launch achieved its objectives “in full".

Angara A5, Russia’s largest operational rocket, took flight from the Vostochny Cosmodrome earlier today.

Russia successfully launched its Angara A5 space rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Thursday afternoon after two aborted liftoff attempts earlier this week.

Russia will embark on a third attempt on Thursday to proceed with a test launch of its Angara-A5 space rocket after technical glitches prompted officials to abort missions at the very last minute for two days in a row. Russia's space chief, Yuri Borisov, quoted by Russian news agencies, said the launch had been rescheduled for noon on Thursday (0900 GMT) at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, located in the forests of the Amur region in Russia's Far East. The launch of the Angara is intended t...

Russia on Thursday successfully test-launched a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex, a lift-off that comes after two aborted attempts earlier this week. The first attempt to launch the Angara-A5 rocket from the Vostochny spaceport on Tuesday was canceled about two minutes before the scheduled liftoff due to a failure of the pressurization system of the oxidizer tank in the central block of the rocket. The second attempted launch Wednesday was also aborted by the automatic ...

Russia on Thursday successfully test-launched a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex, a lift-off that comes after two aborted attempts earlier this week.

The first attempt on Tuesday was cancelled about two minutes before the scheduled lift-off.