Three landmark orbital missions left Earth from the Baikonur cosmodrome, across a span of 62 years.
Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, lifted off from the site on 4 October 1957. Four weeks later, an R-7 rocket carried the dog Laika into orbit from the same launch region. On 13 July 2019, the Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC X-ray telescope launched from Baikonur aboard a Proton rocket.
No additional launches from the site are confirmed in the filed records.
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By Luisa Marconi · 3d
