Roscosmos vostochny cosmodrome soyuz 7. Roscosmos uses a family of several launch rockets the most famous of them being the r 7 commonly known as the soyuz rocket that is capable of launching about 75 tons into low earth orbit leo. Vostochny cosmodrome russia sputnik a russian state commission which gathered at the vostochny cosmodrome in the countrys far east approved the launch of the soyuz 21a carrier rocket with two russian kanopus v satellites and 26 smaller spacecraft from the spaceport russian space agency roscosmos said on thursday. The rocket lifted off at 207 gmt 907 pm. The commission has decided to roll out the soyuz 21a on the launch pad baikonur east april 23 2016.
The vostochny cosmodrome russian. The proton rocket or ur 500k has a lift capacity of over 20 tons to leo. Kosmodrom vostochnyy kosmodrom vostochny eastern spaceport is a russian spaceport under construction on the 51st parallel north in the amur oblast in the russian far east. Should be loaded in a more serious way.
Start is scheduled for april 27 2016 at 0501 moscow time. Est from site 1s at the vostochny cosmodrome which is located in russias far east. Vostochniy cosmodrome updates. Smaller rockets include rokot and other stations.
Moscow sputnik one of the routes opened for launches of soyuz 2 carrier rockets from the vostochny space center can be used to launch manned and cargo spacecraft to the international space station iss a spokesperson for the russian state space corporation roscosmos told sputnik on sunday. When completed in 2018 at an estimated cost of 75 billion usd it is intended to reduce russia s. The vostochny cosmodrome a key part of russias future space launch ambitions has undergone a maintenance period ahead of what will be its second launch.