Second test flight of Russia's Angara A5 heavy-lift rocket from Plesetsk, six years after its 2014 debut. Its Breeze-M upper stage carried a dummy payload to geostationary orbit, validating the design after years of production and supplier delays.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 3 Angara A5/Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 14 December 2020, 05:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Angara A5/Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 35/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2020-097
- Launches in 2020
- 106th of 114
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