WATCH: Russia’s Angara A5 ‘eco-space rocket’ successfully fires payload into orbit for first time in 6 years

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The Russian Space Forces have conducted a successful second test launch of the Angara A5 heavy-lift space launch vehicle, six years after the first test flight in 2014.

Launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Mirny, about 800km north of Moscow, the rocket was fired into the sky at 8.50am Moscow time.

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