“Roscosmos” launches the first heavy Angara rocket from the Vostochny Space Airport

Russia – After being postponed twice… Roscosmos announced the successful launch of the first Angara-A5 heavy rocket from the Vostochny Space Airport.

A statement issued by the agency said: “On Thursday, April 11, at exactly 12:00 Moscow time, the Angara-A5 rocket was launched from the platform located at Site 1A at the Russian Vostochny Space Airport, and the new “Orion” accelerator unit is supposed to separate. About 12.5 minutes after launch.

The missile was supposed to be launched from Vostochny Airport last Tuesday, but the launch process was stopped about two minutes before its implementation due to a malfunction in the pressure system of the oxidizer tank in the central unit of the missile, and it was decided to postpone the launch process to the next day, and on Wednesday, seconds before the launch, it was decided to stop the process as well. It was also postponed for 24 hours.

Roscosmos previously indicated that with the launch of the aforementioned missile, launch tests will begin for the new “Amur” complex located at the airport, the construction of which began in 2018, and in 2023 the systems of this complex will be tested with a full-sized version of the Angara missile. A5 Space Heavy.

It should be noted that Russia today possesses several types of Angara space missiles, and launched a number of them from the “Plesetsk” space base. As for the Vostochny Space Airport, 16 Soyuz-2.1a and Soyuz-2.1b missiles have been launched from 2016 until now. ..

Source: Russian agencies