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The Angara-A5 rocket, which will replace the Soviet-era Protons flying from the Baikonur spaceport operated by Russia in Kazakhstan, was first launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome on April 11, 2024.
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China launches Tianhe module, start of ambitious two-year station construction effort April 28, 2021 China launched a Chang Zheng 5B rocket with the Tianhe station core module to low Earth orbit, marking the start of an ambitious two year construction effort of the nation’s new multi-module space station. Liftoff of the historic mission occurred at 23:18 EDT on Wednesday, 28 April — which was 03:18 UTC on Thursday, 29 April — from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Hainan Province island, People’s Republic of China. Tianhe seeks “harmony of the heavens” Tianhe, “harmony of t...