Russia’s Angara-A5 heavy-lift spacecraft will be a major carrier rocket to orbit satellites and spaceships from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East, Khrunichev Space Center CEO Alexey Varochko said on Thursday.

The Khrunichev chief executive made this statement following the first successful test-launch of the Angara-A5 heavy carrier rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur Region on April 11.

"The manufacture of the carrier rocket began at the Omsk production site. The rocket was manufactured, delivered to the spaceport and it underwent all preparation stages. Today is the day that has drawn the line with this launch. The Angara-A5 will be a major vehicle to deliver into orbit heavy satellites and spaceships from this Amur land," the chief executive told reporters.

By now, Russian specialists have finished work on the conceptual design of the Angara-A5V rocket with a hydrogen-powered stage, Varochko said.

"Work will continue under the next 2025 program to create the Angara-A5V carrier rocket and its launch will surely take place from the Vostochny Cosmodrome," he said.

The Angara-A5 heavy-lift rocket blasted off from the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian Far East at 12:00 p.m. Moscow time (9:00 a.m. GMT) on April 11 after two failed attempts in the previous two days.

This is the first test-flight of the Angara rocket from the Vostochny spaceport in eastern Russia. Previously, these launch vehicles blasted off only from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia.