{"id":283308,"date":"2025-11-25T23:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283308\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:06:12","slug":"angara-1-2-flies-its-sixth-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283308\/","title":{"rendered":"Angara-1.2 flies its sixth mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\" class=\"mainHeadline\">Angara-1.2 flies its sixth mission<\/p>\n<p class=\"quickDesc\">The light version of the Angara rocket lifted off from Plesetsk on Nov. 25, 2025, carrying a trio of classified communications satellites during its sixth mission since the introduction of the vehicle in 2022. it was also the third flight of the booster in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"navLine\">Previous chapter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/angara1-flight5.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fifth flight of the Angara-1.2 rocket<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"tableHeadline\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/angara1_2_flight6_launch_1.jpg\" alt=\"launch\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"tableHeadline\">The sixth Angara-1.2 mission at a glance:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"bodyText\">In mid-November 2025, Russian authorities issued sea- and air-traffic warnings for the Arctic Ocean and the Barents Sea, whose coordinates matched the areas appropriate for the impact of the first stage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/angara1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angara-1.2<\/a> rocket and its payload fairing, when heading to a near-polar orbit with an inclination 82.5 degrees from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/plesetsk.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plesetsk<\/a>. According to a historian of the Russian space program Bart Hendrickx, the coordinates of the closed-off areas repeated the parameters of impact sites for the Angara-1.2&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/angara1-flight4.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourth mission<\/a> in March 2025 with a trio No. 7 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/rodnik.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodnik<\/a> classified communications satellites. As noted by Hendrickx, the publically available litigation work listed the launch of Block No. 8 of Rodnik satellites within several months after the seventh trio. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"bodyText\">According to the advisories, the launch was scheduled between Nov. 25 and Nov. 29, 2025, between 16:00 and 17:35 Moscow Time (8:00 \u2013 9:35 a.m. EST).      <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"bodyText\">On Nov. 25, 2025, Roskosmos announced that Angara-1.2 launch vehicle lifted off at 16:42 Moscow Time with multiple spacecraft for the Ministry of Defense. The Russian military also confirmed the launch, according to the official Russian media. Around an hour later, the Ministry of Defense said that the spacecraft had been released into their orbit as planned and came under control by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/kik.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">assets<\/a> of the Space Forces, VKS.<\/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:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/insider-content.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/insider_content_200.jpg\" alt=\"insider content\" width=\"200\" height=\"486\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/insider-content.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/insider_content_200.jpg\" alt=\"insider content\" width=\"200\" height=\"486\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/javascript:;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/angara1_2_flight6_rollout_2.jpg\" alt=\"erecting\" width=\"200\" height=\"145\" border=\"0\" onclick=\"MM_openBrWindow('images\/rockets\/angara\/angara1\/angara1_2_flight6\/angara1_2_flight6_rollout_1.jpg','rollout','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=730,height=440')\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angara-1.2 flies its sixth mission The light version of the Angara rocket lifted off from Plesetsk on Nov.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[41981,41979,41980,115545,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-283308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-angara","9":"tag-angara-1","10":"tag-angara-1-2","11":"tag-rodnik","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}