Roscosmos - Angara A5 Testflight - LS-1A - Vostochny Cosmodrome/Russia - April 11, 2024

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 ve