First Angara-A5 LV brought to Vostochny Cosmodrome for flight tests - Roscosmos

MOSCOW. Jan 9 (Interfax) - The first Angara-A5 launch vehicle has been brought to the Vostochny Cosmodrome for developmental flight tests, the Roscosmos state corporation said on Tuesday.

"A train carrying rocket components arrived at the Ledyanaya station from the Polyot manufacturing company, a branch of Roscosmos' Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, this morning," Roscosmos said.

Specialists from the Vostochny Space Center and the Khrunichev Center will unload the rocket parts in the assembly and testing facility on Wednesday, it said.

On December 26, 2023, Roscosmos head Yury Borisov said that the maiden launch of Angara-A5 from Vostochny was scheduled for March 2024.

On December 11, 2023, Roscosmos reported the successful completion of comprehensive trials of the Angara-NZh full-sized operational mockup.

Angara is a family of Russian modular launch vehicles with variable lifting capacity. The rocket consists of universal modules powered by oxygen-kerosene engines. The family ranges from light to heavy and can deliver from 3.5 tonnes (Angara-1.2) to 38 tonnes (Angara-A5V) to a low Earth orbit.