Russia's Ninth Orbital Launch

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Facing “financial crisis,” Russia on pace for lowest launch total in 6 decades

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A Progress cargo supply spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday .

This was just Russia 's ninth orbital launch of the year .

At this pace, it appears that the country's space program is on pace for the fewest number of Russian or Soviet space launches in a year since 1961 .

Western space powers have distanced themselves from the Russian space corporation, Roscosmos , after the invasion of Ukraine .

This appears to be an updated take on a Russian rocket design that is more than three decades old . "We have already studied whether or not a new booster of this type will be in demand," Yelchaninov said. "The answer is obvious—we are reducing the cost of access to space by more than an order of magnitude and discovering entirely new opportunities for super-operational delivery of cargo, and we are moving toward an ideology of space as a service." I would not hold my breath on seeing Corona fly..

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