News Archive / Tagged: Vostochny Cosmodrome

• Russia’s Vostochny spaceport to debut with the launch of Soyuz-2.1a rocket

  Tomasz NowakowskiApril 25th, 2016

  After being troubled by numerous setbacks and delays, Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome is finally ready and all set for its debut launch this week. The spaceport, located in the Amur Region in the Russian Far East, will inaugurate its operations with the flight of a Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying a trio of satellites.

• Putin delays inaugural Vostochny Cosmodrome launch

  Tomasz NowakowskiOctober 18th, 2015

  Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a visit to the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Wednesday, Oct. 14, to inspect construction work at the spaceport and chair a session on its development. He decided to postpone the date of Russia's first space launch from the Cosmodrome by four months, pushing the launch into early 2016.

• Russian Angara rocket to launch commercial missions

  Tomasz NowakowskiJuly 22nd, 2015

  International Launch Services (ILS ) has announced that it will offer the new Russian Angara 1.2 rocket for commercial launches starting as early as 2017. The launches will be conducted from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia and could mark a major change in terms of what type of boosters that the launch service provider uses to […]

• Vostochny report part 3: Hunger games

  Tomasz NowakowskiMay 3rd, 2015

  “We have worked four months without a paycheck! Save the workers! We want to work!” More than 500 people including fitters, welders, and crane operators claim they have not received any money for four months. That was two weeks ago, but earlier in April, 100 workers went on strike and 26 started a hunger strike. […]

• Russian space efforts encounter array of setbacks in less than a week

  Jason RhianApril 24th, 2015

  The Russian Federal Space Agency, or “Roscosmos”, and the Russian military have been dealt an array of setbacks in the past few days. On Apr. 22, Global Post reported that a Russian military rocket crashed shortly after launch in the country’s northern Arkhangelsk region. Although no casualties or damage were reported, the loss of yet another Russian launch […]

• Vostochny report part 2: Into the darkness

  Tomasz NowakowskiMarch 24th, 2015

  Pay the debts or go into the darkness, that is what the operators of the Vostochny Cosmodrone were told recently, relating to energy bills – and crippling debt. Cutting the power supplies is a serious setback for the project, and it could even be recognized as an act of sabotage when an investment of national […]

• Vostochny report part 1: all the right people

  Tomasz NowakowskiMarch 9th, 2015

  Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin tours the progress at Vostochny cosmodrome construction site every month. On Feb. 27, he went to inspect the facilities, and then held a working meeting with representatives of the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and Federal Agency for Special Construction Spetsstroy.

• Roscosmos boss talks new super-heavy booster rocket, Vostochny Cosmodrome, cooperation with U.S.

  Tomasz NowakowskiSeptember 27th, 2014

  Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will not decide on a leading designer of a new super-heavy booster rocket until the end of this year, Roscosmos head Oleg Ostapenko said on Friday, September 26. A competition for the powerful launch vehicle has not been held yet, he said.