The Vostochny Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром Восточный, romanized:Kosmodrom Vostochnyy, lit. 'Eastern Spaceport') is a Russian space launch facility in the Amur Oblast, located above the 51st parallel north in the Russian Far East.

Jun 6, 2018 · Vostochny Cosmodrome is a Russian rocket launch site in the far east of the country, about 3,500 miles (5,500 kilometers) from Moscow. The first launch from the cosmodrome took place in...

Sep 13, 2023 · Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un examine a rocket assembly hangar during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023.

Jan 30, 2019 · BLAGOVESHCHENSK, Russia — The construction of Russia’s newest space launch facility, the Vostochny Cosmodrome, was inevitable from the moment the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. After...

Sep 13, 2023 · President Vladimir Putin met North Korea's Kim Jong Un, possibly at Russia's most modern space rocket launch site, on Wednesday amid the forests of the eastern Russia.

From March 21 to March 25, Soyuz-2-1a rocket was tested on its brand new launch pad, opening door to the first mission from Vostochny on April 27, or nearly a decade after the last rocket flew from a near-by site. A Soyuz successfully delivered three satellites into orbit on April 28.

Apr 12, 2024 · Nestled in the vast wilderness of Russia's Far East, a new spaceport has emerged as a symbol of the country's cosmic ambitions. The Vostochny Cosmodrome, situated in the Amur Oblast, is poised to become Russia's primary launch site, reducing its dependence on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

On April 28, 2016, the first launch was successfully completed from the Vostochny cosmodrome – the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle launched the Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 spacecraft into orbit. To date, the employees of the branch have already provided five launches from the new Russian cosmodrome.

Jul 31, 2016 · MOSCOW — Russia is building a spaceport designed to reinstate it at the forefront of cosmic travel and evoke its 1950s Soviet heyday when Moscow put the first human in orbit.

Dec 27, 2018 · VOSTOCHNY COSMODROME, Russia — With an exasperated hiss and engulfing roar, the sounds of a Soyuz rocket pierced the wild, windswept expanse of Russia’s far eastern taiga in a dramatic signal...