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The third launch occurred on 1 February 2018 from Site 1S, with a Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M. The primary payloads were two Russian government Earth observation satellites, Kanopus-V 3 and 4. Also aboard were 9 cubesats. The launch was successful. [37] The fourth launch from Vostochny, using a Soyuz 2.1a, was conducted on 27 December 2018.
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
While the maximum thrust of the engine was slightly decreased from 298 to 294 kilonewtons (67,000 to 66,000 lb f), specific impulse (a measure of efficiency) was significantly increased 326 to 359 seconds (3.20 to 3.52 km/s) and burn time was increased by 20 seconds on the same quantity of propellants. Taken together, these changes improved ...
* The first launch was in 2016, when a Soyuz-2 rocket blasted off. The most recent launch was a Soyuz rocket carrying the ill-fated Luna-25 moon spacecraft, which crashed into the moon. (Reporting ...
"With this launch, flight design tests of the Amur space rocket complex with Angara heavy-class launch vehicles on Vostochny began." The 54.5-metre (178.81-foot) three-stage rocket, with a mass of ...
[2] The cause of failure was determined to be faulty programming. The satellite was programmed with a launch point of Baikonur Cosmodrome, instead of the Vostochny Cosmodrome [3] causing the satellite to enter an incorrect orbit. [4] This was the second launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, the first civilian launch site in Russia. [5]
The 42.7-metre Angara launch vehicle, capable of carrying payloads bigger than 20 tonnes into orbit, is being developed to replace Russia's Proton M as Russia's heavy-lift rocket, which has been ...
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