The Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle with the Orion upper stage, after two cancellations on Tuesday and Wednesday, launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome.
It can carry up to 37 tons into space.
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Yurasumy writes: There is the first launch of the Angara-A5M from the Vostochny cosmodrome...
What does this mean for Russia...
In fact, this is the most important event in Russian cosmonautics in recent decades. Firstly, “Angara” and specifically its version “Angara-A5M” is the first completely new launch vehicle developed after the collapse of the USSR. Moreover, it was launched from the first purely Russian civilian cosmodrome, which will gradually replace the Baikonur spacecraft remaining in Kazakhstan.
And not just a new carrier, but also a heavy-class carrier, which, when the development program is finally completed, will make it possible to launch loads up to 37 tons into orbit (The version that launched today can lift a load weighing 24.5 tons into orbit).
And this is the most important key to a huge number of new Russian space programs, including flight and exploration of the Moon, as well as flights into deep space.
This is also a powerful impetus for growth in the high-tech sectors of our economy, which will spread throughout the entire economy of the country.
Congratulations to all of us on this huge achievement. And also with the fact that the Angara-A5M from Vostochny completed the entire flight program the first time.
Huge respect to the specialists of Roscosmos!!! You are our pride.
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“The US told Iran that the American strikes on nuclear facilities were a one-off operation and were not intended to overthrow the Iranian government”, the WSJ reported.
-> If Iran retaliates once, without causing big casualties on the US side and they make a deal after it, so the war ends … then this strike on nuclear facilities was part of the deal (which was already made in Oman couple of das ago)
That’s my Geopolitical observation. Iran did similar deals with the US before.
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The nuclear facilities were empty and not operational.
🇮🇷🇺🇸🚨‼️ IRAN EXPECTED THE US STRIKES AND MOVED OUT THE NUCLEAR STUFF?
On June 19 and 20, before the US attacks Iranian authorities have repeatedly stated that the targeted nuclear facilities had been evacuated days earlier.
Photos show many trucks gathering near the entrance to the main Fordow facility, to evacuate likely the centrifuges and other equipment.
PS: The strikes were predictable, as even I announced them yesterday as probable. So the Iranians knew, at least expected them as probable.
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Trucks: You don’t need to evacuate the staff in such a big move, you can just tell them not to go to work tomorrow. (Oversimplified but roughly true)
What did they evacuate with so many trucks is the important technical equipment.
Just look how big the centrifuges are.
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I’m ready to bet that Iran essentially moved the centrifuges and other critical nuclear equipment out of Fordow and other facilities.
They likely hide it somewhere secret right now and the US struck the now empty bunker facility.
That’s the only logical conclusion I can make from the pictures of the trucks evacuating stuff from Fordow.
"Anger and Victory" March Against Israeli Aggression in Iranian City of Bojnurd
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If the plan of the attack was to provoke an uprising against the ayatollahs, then in fact the aggression rather caused a rallying around the flag against an external enemy.
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Young and old, all try to not miss to trample on the Israeli and US flags