Russia launches first Angara-A5 space rocket from Vostochny
STORY: The launch of the Angara, a new post-Soviet launch vehicle, is intended to showcase Russia's post-Soviet space ambitions and the growing role played by Vostochny which sits in the forests of the Amur region of Russia's Far East.
Roscosmos said Angara-A5 launched with an test payload and had worked normally.
Russia began the Angara project a few years after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union as a Russian-made launch vehicle that would ensure access to space even without the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which Russia rents from Kazakhstan.
