Russian Space Officials Abort Planned Test Launch of New Heavy-lift Rocket Written 9 April 2024
Angara A5 | Credit: ИА Военинформ; Wikipedia; CC BY-SA 4.0
The Associated Press reports that a Russian Angara-A5 rocket was set to launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome at 5:00 AM ET Tuesday, but the launch was scrubbed just two minutes before liftoff. “Yuri Borisov, head of Roscosmos state space corporation, said the automatic safety system canceled the launch after registering a flaw in the oxidizer tank pressurization system.”
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