This is the first test-flight of the Angara rocket from the Vostochny spaceport in eastern Russia. Previously, these launch vehicles blasted off only from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern ...

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.

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 launch of the Angara A5 rocket, scheduled for April 9 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome located in the forests of the Amur region, was aborted less than two minutes before liftoff.

The complex will now host Soyuz and Angara launches throughout the 2020s ... of retractable arms with gantries that enclose the rocket as used at Plesetsk and Baikonur’s older pads.