Roscosmos - Angara A5 Testflight - LS-1A - Vostochny Cosmodrome/Russia - Space Affairs Live

The test flight on April 9 was scrubbed because of too many birds flying around and strong cross winds. First test launch of the Angara A5 rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. Lift-Off is set for April 10, 5:00 a.m. EDT, 09:00 UTC, 11:00 CEST, 19:00 Asia/Yakutsk Time Zone. Depending on the stream of RK, we will start the stream approx. 30 to 20 minutes before the planned launch. The mission will not carry payloads, and the rocket will carry 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.