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“#Russia stages ‘successful’ second launch of new rocket<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Russia on Monday conducted a second launch of its new heavy-class Angara rocket\u2014the first developed after the fall of the Soviet Union\u2014nearly six years after its maiden voyage.<\/p>\n

Space agency Roscosmos announced that the next-generation Angara-A5 rocket had been “successfully” launched with a mock payload from Plesetsk in northern Russia at 0550 GMT.<\/p>\n

Twelve minutes and 28 seconds after the launch, “the orbital block consisting of the Breeze-M upper stage and the spacecraft’s cargo mockup separated from the third stage of the carrier”, Roscosmos said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Agency head Dmitry Rogozin welcomed the news<\/a> on Twitter<\/a>, posting a picture of the rocket and writing: “She flies, damn it!”<\/p>\n

The only other launch of the heavy-class Angara rocket took place in late December 2014, while a test of a lighter class version of the rocket was conducted in July that year.<\/p>\n

The Angara rockets\u2014named after a Siberian river flowing out of Lake Baikal\u2014are the first new family of launchers to be built after the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

They are designed to replace the Proton rockets that date back to the 1960s and have suffered a series<\/a> of embarrassing failures in recent years. <\/p>\n

President Vladimir Putin hopes the new launchers will revive Russia’s space industry and reduce reliance on other former Soviet countries. <\/p>\n

Officials say the heavy-class Angara rocket is more environmentally friendly than its predecessors because it is fuelled by oxygen and kerosene rather than hugely toxic heptyl.<\/p>\n\n

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Russia reports successful launch of new rocket\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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\n \u00a9 2020 AFP<\/p>\n

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