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New Delhi:<\/strong> Russia successfully conducted the test launch of its Angara-A5 rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Thursday. This achievement comes after a series of technical glitches forced officials to abort missions in the last two days.<\/p>\n The Angara-A5, a post-Soviet launch vehicle, represents Russia\u2019s renewed space ambitions. The launch also underscores the growing significance of the Vostochny which sits in the forests of the Amur region in Russia\u2019s Far East.<\/p>\n The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, declared the flight as \u201cnormal.\u201d All systems operated as expected. Within minutes, the rocket achieved speeds exceeding 25,000 kilometres per hour and successfully entered orbit.<\/p>\n Notably, the previous day a test launch was canceled due to an engine launch control system malfunctioned. Despite this setback, Russia remains committed to the Angara project, initiated in the aftermath of the Soviet Union\u2019s collapse in 1991. The Angara launch vehicle ensures access to space, even without relying on the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which Russia leases from Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n \u201cWith this launch, flight design tests of the Amur space rocket complex with Angara heavy-class launch vehicles on Vostochny began,\u201d Roscosmos said. The Angara-A5\u2019s test flight occurred in 2014, followed by another mission in 2020, both launched from the Plesetsk<\/p>\n Roscosmos added that the Angara-A5 is significantly more environmentally friendly than Russia\u2019s Proton M heavy-lift rocket, which has been operational since the mid-1960s.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] New Delhi: Russia successfully conducted the test launch of its Angara-A5 rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Thursday. This achievement comes after a series of technical glitches forced officials to abort missions in the last two days. The Angara-A5, a post-Soviet launch vehicle, represents Russia\u2019s renewed space ambitions. The launch also underscores the growing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25183,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25181\/revisions\/25183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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