Russia Inaugurates Siberian Cosmodrome With Soyuz Launcher

Credit: Multi-satellite launch: Roscosmos
Russia kicked off operations at its new Vostochny Cosmodrome in Siberia early Thursday with a multi-satellite launch on a Soyuz vehicle from a new pad that closely mimics the venerable “Start-1” site in Kazakhstan that orbited Sputnik-1 and Yuri Gagarin. Launch was delayed for a day after a last...

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