Tests on the launch complex “East” were successful – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, March 25 – RIA Novosti. Complex tests of the launch complex at the spaceport “East” were successful, Roscosmos said.

“Twenty-fifth in March 2016 at the cosmodrome” East “nominally ended in comprehensive tests of the launch complex,” – said in a statement

carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1a” removed from the starting system and returned to the assembly-test case for further work, including -. for assembly space the head of the spacecraft with the “Lomonosov”, “Aist-2D” and “Contact-nano-satellite,” the report says.

The decision to roll out the launch vehicle to the launch pad for final preparation and determination of the start date to “East” will be accepted by the state commission for positive test results at the processing facility, as well as the absence of safety notes.

Construction of Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region began in 2012. He will become the first national cosmodrome of civilian, will provide Russia independent access to space. The first launch from the Baikonur has been scheduled for 25 December 2015, but later it was postponed for 2016.