28 April 2016
Rocket Launch from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome Successful
... Aist and the Samsat satellites were created at Samara State Aerospace University. The second launch from Vostochny is tentatively scheduled for 2017. The first piloted launch from the cosmodrome is scheduled for 2023, when...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
... on estimates by Kazakhstan’s authorities, came to about US$89 million.10 But even if rockets stop falling out of the sky and Vostochny works to full capacity, this won’t be enough to improve the ecological impact of the space industry. What it needs...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
...and pensions and had nowhere else to go. Tsiolkovsky city, Vostochny. From the arrival of Rogozin, a sustained effort was ... the father of cosmonautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935). Vostochny saw its first launch in 2016 and five missions have...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...an archaeological relic while at the other end of the spectrum, the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia is cutting-edge steel-and-glass modern. There are... plans for the Moon and solar system, and Vostochny, where the new Angara pad now nears completion....
14 October 2015
Putin delays first launch from new Russian cosmodrome
... replace the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which Russia has been leasing. The first launch expected from Vostochny is the Lomonosov and Aist satellites, developed in collaboration with university students in Moscow and Samara, Interfax reported...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
...Kourou’s experience for the brand new Siberian space base located in Vostochny - successfully inaugurated on 28 April 2016 - by using a ...account new elements such as the recent opening of the Vostochny space base. There is no doubt that reducing the ...