New Rocket Expands Russian Space Launch Capabilities

January 14, 2014

MOSCOW, January 14 (RIA Novosti) – The maiden mission of a new Russian lightweight rocket was a “huge success,” the director of the factory that built the launcher said Monday.

“This is the first modern Russian rocket in the lightweight class with liquid rocket engines,” Alexander Kirilin said in an address to workers at the Progress Factory in the Volga City Samara. The Soyuz-2.1v rocket lifted off from Russia’s northern Plesetsk space center on December 28. It can carry up to 2,800 kg of payload into orbit and is powered by rocket engines left over from the Soviet Union’s lunar program.

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