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On 25 September 2015, the first rocket destined for a launch at Vostochny Cosmodrome arrived by train. The rocket, Soyuz-2.1a, was planned to launch in December 2015. [31] The launch took place on 28 April 2016. In September 2018, it became known that cavities had appeared in the foundations of Site 1A due to poorly poured concrete. Repairs ...
Open field chosen as rocket test site in 1925; launch site of Robert H. Goddard's first liquid fuel rockets beginning on 16 March 1926. [60]: 143 United States: Eden Valley Test Site, Roswell, New Mexico: 1930–1941 >30
The Vostochny Cosmodrome Site 1S (Russian: Площадka-1C) is a launch complex at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia. It consists of a single pad for use by the Soyuz-2 launch vehicles. [1] On 28 April 2016, the first launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome took place from this pad. [2] The third launch took place on 1 February 2018.
Pages in category "Rocket launch sites in Russia" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Vostochny Cosmodrome Site 1A; Vostochny Cosmodrome ...
From 1957 through 1966 the site hosted ready-to-launch strategic nuclear ICBMs in addition to spacecraft launches; [6] by the 2000s there had been more than 400 launches from the site. [7] The 500th launch from this site was of Soyuz TMA-18M on 2 September 2015. In 1961, the growing launch schedule of the Soviet space program resulted in the ...
A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching or receiving spacecraft, by analogy to a seaport for ships or an airport for aircraft.The word spaceport, and even more so cosmodrome, has traditionally been used for sites capable of launching spacecraft into orbit around Earth or on interplanetary trajectories. [1]
Dispatch will be completed on time with an estimated launch date for Angara-A5 in the fourth quarter of 2023. [9] On 1 September 2019, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, announced on Twitter that on 2 September 2019, the foundation pit would begin concreting and 1.5 thousand cubic meters of concrete would be poured. [10]
The Luna 25 mission lifted off on 10 August 2023, 23:10 UTC, atop a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's far eastern Amur Region, [3] [10] and on 16 August entered lunar orbit. On 19 August at 11:57 UTC, the lander crashed on the Moon's surface after a failed orbital manoeuvre.