{"id":362625,"date":"2025-08-21T17:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362625\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:47:10","slug":"angara-1-flies-its-fifth-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362625\/","title":{"rendered":"Angara-1 flies its fifth mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<td bordercolor=\"#CCCCCC\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"mainHeadline\">Angara-1 flies its fifth mission<\/p>\n<p class=\"quickDesc\">For the second time in 2025, the light version of the Angara rocket flew from Plesetsk on August 21, performing a classified military mission. It was the fifth launch of the Angara-1.2 variant and 11th mission for the Angara family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"navLine\"><strong>Previous chapter: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/russianspaceweb.com\/angara1-flight4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Fourth flight of the Angara-1.2 rocket<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"tableHeadline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/angara1_flight5_launch_1.jpg\" alt=\"launch\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"tableHeadline\">The fifth Angara-1.2 mission at a glance:<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" class=\"tableText\" style=\"text-align: left\">Launch vehicle<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" class=\"tableText\" style=\"text-align: left\"\/>\n        <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" class=\"tableText\" style=\"text-align: left\">Payload fairing<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" class=\"tableText\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p>14S733<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" class=\"tableText\" style=\"text-align: left\">Launch site<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" class=\"tableText\" style=\"text-align: left\"\/>\n        <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" class=\"tableText\" style=\"text-align: left\">Launch date and time<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" class=\"tableText\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p>2025 Aug. 21, 12:32 Moscow Time (09:32 UTC, 5:32 a.m. EDT)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" class=\"tableText\" style=\"text-align: left\">Payload<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" class=\"tableText\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p>Kosmos (14F178, OO MKA No. 7, 8, 9, 10)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"bodyText\">Starting on Aug. 12,  2025, Russian authorities began issuing sea- and air-traffic warnings in the Barents Sea, just North of the Kola Peninsula, whose coordinates were close to the areas appropriate for the impact of the first stage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/russianspaceweb.com\/angara1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angara-1.2<\/a> rocket and its payload fairing, when heading to a near-polar orbit with an inclination 96.7 degrees from <a href=\"https:\/\/russianspaceweb.com\/plesetsk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plesetsk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"bodyText\">Another warning for the Northern Pacific restricted the areas close to the impact distance for the Angara&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/russianspaceweb.com\/protected\/angara1-2-stage2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second stage<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/russianspaceweb.com\/protected\/angara1-2-ao.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upper (third) stage<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/russianspaceweb.com\/insider-content.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INSIDER CONTENT<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"bodyText\">According to the advisories, the launch was scheduled around noon between Aug. 21 and Aug. 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"bodyText\">On Aug. 21, 2025, official Russian media, quoting the Ministry of Defense, announced that the Angara-1.2 launch vehicle lifted off from <a href=\"https:\/\/russianspaceweb.com\/plesetsk_angara.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Site 35<\/a> in Plesetsk with  multiple military spacecraft at 12:32 Moscow Time (5:32 a.m. EDT) and successfully delivered them to the Earth&#8217;s orbit.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"bodyText\">The Ministry of Defense then confirmed the successful launch of multiple spacecraft and that communications had been established with newly launched satellites which were reported functioning as planned.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"bodyText\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"navLine\">To be continued<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"navLine\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"navLine\"><a href=\"https:\/\/russianspaceweb.com\/insider-content.html\" target=\"_blank\" 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