The Russian space agency Roscosmos conducted a successful orbital test launch of its new Angara A5 heavy-lift rocket, helping ...

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.

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.

The Angara-A5 heavy-lift rocket blasted off from the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian Far East at 12:00 p.m. Moscow time on April 11 after two failed attempts in the previous two days VOSTOCHNY ...