Roscosmos Angara A5 Testflight LS1A Vostochny CosmodromeRussia April 11 2024

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After 2 scrubs, the Angara A5 rocket lift-off strictly at 09:00 UTC from Launch Site 1A (LS-1A) from the Russian Cosmodrome Vostochny for the first time. The dummy payload reached the predicted orbit after 8:30 minutes in flight. • First test launch of the Angara A5 rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East. • Lift-Off is set for April 11, 5:00 a.m. EDT, 09:00 UTC, 11:00 CEST, 19:00 Asia/Yakutsk Time Zone. • Depending on RK's stream, we will start the stream approximately 30 to 20 minutes before the planned launch. • The mission will not carry payloads, and the rocket will take an upper stage called Orion . • The Angara rocket family (Russian: Ангара) is a family of launch vehicles being developed by the Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center. The launch vehicles are intended to put between 3,800 kg (8,400 lb) and 24,500 kg (54,000 lb) into low Earth orbit and, along with Soyuz-2 variants, replace several existing launch vehicles. • In 2014, 22 years after Angara's original conception, the first launch took place on 9 July 2014, an Angara 1.2PP suborbital test flight from the northern Plesetsk Cosmodrome. On 23 December 2014, Angara A5's first test flight was performed, launching it into geosynchronous orbit. In June 2020, it was reported that the first Angara Launching Pad was completed and would be transported to Vostochny Cosmodrome. • On 14 December 2020, six years after the first test flight, Angara-A5's second test flight took place from Plesetsk. • Only the launch of Angara-A5 with the Persei upper stage ended up happening in 2021. The maiden flight of Angara 1.2 happened on 29 April 2022. • The second Angara developed was the heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Angara A5. It consists of one URM-1 core and four URM-1 boosters, a 3.6 m (12 ft) URM-2 second stage, and an upper stage, either the Briz-M or the KVTK. Weighing 773 tonnes at lift-off, the Angara A5 has a payload capacity of 24.5 tonnes to a 200 km (120 mi) x 60° orbit. The Angara A5 can deliver 5.4 tonnes to GTO with Briz-M or 7.5 tonnes to the same orbit with KVTK. • In the Angara A5, the four URM-1s used as boosters operate at full thrust for approximately 214 seconds, then separate. The URM-1 forming the vehicle's core is operated at full thrust for lift-off, then throttled to 30% to conserve propellant. The core is throttled back up after the boosters have separated and continue burning for another 110 seconds. • The first Angara A5 test flight was launched on 23 December 2014. The second test flight was launched on 14 December 2020 from Plesetsk. A third test flight was launched on 27 December 2021, also from Plesetsk. However, the test of Persei's upper stage failed, and the payload did not reach LEO to GEO. • About the Vostochny Cosmodrome: • The Vostochny Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром Восточный, Eastern Spaceport ) is a Russian spaceport above the 51st parallel north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East. It is intended to reduce Russia's dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The first launch took place on 28 April 2016 at 02:01 UTC. • Vostochny (which means Eastern in Russian) is in the Svobodny and Shimanovsk districts of Amur Oblast in the Russian Far East, on the watershed of the Zeya and Bolshaya Pyora rivers, approximately 600–800 km (370–500 mi) from the Pacific Ocean, depending on launch azimuth. The next city is Tsiolkovski. • Corruption severely set back the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome. According to Russian prosecutors, at least US$165 million was embezzled during the construction process (critics claim that these numbers are severely downplayed), and in 2015, 350 workers painted giant messages on their barracks, asking Vladimir Putin to help after long payment delays. By July 2016, the price for the spaceport was US$7.5 billion, and costs rose yearly (for example, an additional US$105 million was requested in 2016). By 2019, about 60 persons had been convicted for corruption. • Development of the Vostochny Cosmodrome is expected to positively impact the economy of the relatively poorly developed Russian Far East. The Russian government has a strategic policy to bring high-tech companies into the Far East region, and several enterprises involved in human space flight are expected to move their activities there when the new cosmodrome is completed. Development of the new site is also expected to dramatically increase employment in the towns of Tsiolkovsky, Shimanovsk, Svobodny, and others. An airport and a satellite city will be constructed along with the launch pads and processing facilities. The city will be designed to accommodate 35,000 people as well as tourists. • In November 2012, press reports indicated that the Russian government was having difficulty in finding a good use for the new spaceport and that other government ministries had been avoiding the project, calling it a dolgostroy , which is Russian for an endless construction boondoggle.

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