Космодром Восточный
Russian spaceport in the Amur Oblast
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A Soyuz launched from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome on 2020-12-18 placed a set of 36 OneWeb satellites into orbit.
Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate launched a Soyuz from Vostochny Cosmodrome 11 days before the CSO-2 mission to deliver 36 OneWeb satellites.
OneWeb emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy prior to the planned 2020-12-17 Soyuz launch from Vostochny.
Two additional Soyuz launches were planned before the end of 2020: Flight ST29 from Vostochny for OneWeb and Flight VS25 from the Guiana Space Center.
Arianespace will launch a set of OneWeb satellites on a Soyuz from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on 2020-12-17.
GK Launch Services is offering capacity for smallsat secondary payloads on a Soyuz-2 launch of the Luna-Glob lander scheduled for October 2021 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
The seven other Soyuz-2 launches where GK Launch Services is offering secondary payload space are all to sun-synchronous orbits launching from either Vostochny or the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Soyuz-2 rockets launch from four spaceports: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Vostochny Cosmodrome, and the Guiana Space Center.
The number of OneWeb satellites launched per Soyuz mission depends on the launch site: launches from French Guiana or Kazakhstan carry 34 satellites while launches from Vostochny Cosmodrome carry 36 satellites.
Arianespace is launching the majority of OneWeb’s first-generation constellation using Soyuz rockets from Europe’s Guiana Space Center and Russia’s Baikonur and Vostochny Cosmodromes.
Soyuz-5 will launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and from Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East.
Momentus will demonstrate its water plasma propulsion on an Astro Digital 16-unit cubesat scheduled to launch 2019-07-05 on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Russia plans to start tests of the Angara A5V, a variant with more lift capacity, in 2026 at the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
About 1,000 personnel are flown in from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to support a Soyuz launch at Vostochny.
Russia’s Prosecutor General Office reported that since 2014, 10 billion rubles were stolen or lost in connection with Vostochny, 17,000 legal violations were documented, 140 criminal cases were opened, and 50 people were sentenced under those investigations.
Vostochny’s Soyuz launch complex uses a 1,600-ton mobile service tower to service rockets on the pad.
Vostochny was built on the site of a former intercontinental ballistic missile base that provided existing links to major railways.
GK Launch Services is a Roscosmos subsidiary created to sell and operate commercial launches of Soyuz-2 rockets from Vostochny and other Russian launch sites.
A telecoms contractor working at Vostochny was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport for allegedly pilfering nearly 26 million rubles.
Amur State University is receiving resources to create a new space faculty as part of the Vostochny project to train cosmodrome personnel.