Russia on Thursday test-launched its Angara-A5 space rocket for the first time from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far East, successfully putting a test load in low orbit as part of an effort to develop a new post-Soviet launch vehicle.
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To the relief of Russian space officials, they were third time lucky on Thursday, just hours before Russia celebrates Cosmonaut Day marking the day 63 years ago that the Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin became the first man in outer space. Item 1 of 8 Angara-A5 rocket blasts off from its launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, April 11, 2024. Roscosmos/Ivan Timoshenko/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. PICTURE WATERMARKED AT SOURCE.Angara-A5 rocket blasts off from its launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, April 11, 2024.
Russia began the Angara project a few years after the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union as a Russian-made launch vehicle that would ensure access to space even without the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which Russia rents from Kazakhstan.
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