New Russian heavy-lift rocket makes it into space after 2 failed launches

Russia successfully test-launched a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern Space Facility on Thursday, following two aborted attempts earlier this week. The first attempt to launch the Angara-A5 rocket from the Vostochny spaceport on Tuesday was aborted about two minutes before scheduled liftoff due to a failure in the pressurization system of the oxidizer […]