The first launch of the Angara A5 space rocket from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome will take place on Tuesday, the state space agency Roscosmos said on Monday, in what could be a milestone for President Vladimir Putin's space ambitions.
The heavy-lift rocket will test launch from a newly built launchpad at the Cosmodrome — a symbol of Russia's space power aspirations that has cost billions of dollars and where construction was mired by repeated delays and corruption scandals.
"The launch — tomorrow, at 12:00 Moscow time (0900 GMT)," Roscosmos said on the Telegram messaging app.
