The launch of the new space vehicle is intended to showcase Russia’s post-Soviet space ambitions, and the growing role played by the Vostochny Cosmodrome, which is located in the forests of the Amur region bordering China.
Launch attempts earlier were cancelled due to a failure in a pressurising system in an oxidiser tank and in the engine control system.
Minutes after takeoff, the rocket was travelling at more than twenty five thousand kilometres per hour and entered orbit.
Russia began the Angara project a few years after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union as a Russian-made launch vehicle that would ensure access to space even without the Baikonur Cosmodrome which it rents from Kazakhstan.
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