The first launch of the Angara-A5 heavy-class rocket from the Vostochny cosmodrome was canceled, a Sputnik correspondent reported. Another attempt is expected to be on April 10.
Russia launched the next-generation Glonass-K2 navigation satellite into orbit on August 7, Alexander Ivanov, the deputy head of Russia s state space corporation Roscosmos, said on Monday.
The project s cost is estimated to be around 36 billion rubles, and the telescope is projected to be fully operational by 2030 and situated near the Lake Baikal in the Republic of Buryatia.
Russia s Proton-M carrier rocket carrying a Luch-5 relay satellite will be launched from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in March, the Yuzhny Space Center of the cosmodrome said on Saturday.