First test flight of Russia's new heavy-lift Angara A5 rocket, launched from Plesetsk with a two-ton dummy payload to geosynchronous orbit, ending the country's post-Soviet reliance on Baikonur in Kazakhstan for heavy launches.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 4.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Angara A5/Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 23 December 2014, 05:57 UTC
- Rocket
- Angara A5/Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 35/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2014-085
- Launches in 2014
- 87th of 92
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