The scheduled launch of the Angara A5 rocket on April 9 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, nestled in the forests of the Amur region, was halted less than two minutes before liftoff.

For many decades, Russia was a world leader in space exploration. However, by the second decade of the 21st century, little ...

TASS/. An Angara-A5 heavy-lift rocket with an Orion booster launched from the Vostochny spaceport in Russia’s Far East on its third attempt, a TASS correspondent reported from the scene.

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The Angara test-launch from the Vostochny spaceport will commence flight development tests of the Amur rocket system that comprises the Angara carrier rocket and the spaceport’s infrastructure ...

The Angara is being developed with the existing Proton rocket family in mind–a rocket many in Kazakhstan have objected to due to its highly toxic fuel, cost, and periodic failures. But the ...