Yesterday the Russian Angara carrier rocket has successfully completed its first test launch from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, about 800 km (about 500 miles) north of Moscow. About 21 minutes after the launch, the second stage reached the Kamchatka Peninsula, the area ​​far north-west area of Russia, where it fell down as expected. It was a test of the rocket, which carried no actual payloads but only a dummy that was used to simulate them.